The Banking, Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU) was a British trade union.
The union was founded in 1946 as the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE), when the Bank Officers' Guild and the Scottish Bankers' Association merged. In 1979, it was renamed the Banking, Insurance and Finance Union. In 1999, it merged with the NatWest Staff Association and the Barclays Group Staff Union to form UNIFI.Finance Sector Unions , Unite
By the time of its merger, the union had 113,000 members, in national and international banks, the Bank of England, insurance companies, building societies, finance houses and the Financial Services Authority. It was affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.Select Committee on Treasury Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence: APPENDIX 5 - Memorandum from the Banking Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU)
General Secretaries 1946: T. G. Edwards 1959: James Hornby 1963: Alfred Brooks 1972: Leif Mills 1996: Ed Sweeney
References
External links Catalogue of the BIFU archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Catalogue of the BOG archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick