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Confederation of Health Service Employees

Former trade union of the United Kingdom

Summary

Former trade union of the United Kingdom

Field	Value
name	Confederation of Health Service Employees
location_country	United Kingdom
affiliation	TUC, Labour
members	216,000 (1980)
image	COHSE logo.jpg
founded	1946
dissolved	1993
merged	Unison
headquarters	Glen House, High Street, Banstead
publication	Health Services

The Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) was a United Kingdom trade union representing workers primarily in the National Health Service.

History

The union was founded in 1946 with the merger of the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union and the Hospital and Welfare Services Union, with the aim of having one union to represent workers in the National Health Service on its formation.

In 1993, COHSE merged with two other trade unions - NUPE (the National Union of Public Employees) and NALGO (the National and Local Government Officers Association ) - to form UNISON, the largest public sector trade union in the UK.

Major COHSE campaigns

:1948: Nursing Students Pay :1959: Unofficial Overtime ban :1962: Nurses Pay (Lets twist again) :1972–73: Ancillary Pay strikes (Low pay) :1974: Nurses Pay (Halsbury) :1974?: Private Patients Dispute :1979: Public Sector Pay (Winter of Discontent) :1982: NHS Staff Pay campaign (12%claim) :1988: Nurses Pay (Clinical Grading) :1989–1990: Ambulance Dispute

Election results

The union sponsored Labour Party candidates at each Parliamentary election from 1979.

Election	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Position
1979 general election	Dudley West		29,109	49.1	Labour Party]], Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 406–431.
Ealing North		26,044	43.6	2
Fife Central		27,619	58.0	1
Loughborough		24,589	39.6	2
Oldham West		17,802	52.4	1
Rhondda		38,007	75.2	1
1983 general election	Central Fife		17,008	43.1	1
Oldham West		17,690	44.1	1
Rhondda		29,448	61.7	1
1987 general election	Oldham West		20,291	49.4	1
Redcar		22,824	47.3	1
Rhondda		35,015	73.4	1
Stoke-on-Trent North		25,459	47.1	1
Workington		24,019	52.4	1
1992 general election	Falkirk West		19,162	49.8	1
Oldham West		21,580	52.8	1
Redcar		27,184	56.0	1
Rhondda		34,243	74.5	1
Stoke-on-Trent North		30,464	56.7	1
Wallasey		26,531	48.9	1
Workington		26,719	56.9	1

Leadership

General Secretaries

:1946: George Gibson :1947: Cliff Comer :1953: Jack Waite :1958: Jack Jepson :1967: Dick Akers :1969: Frank Lynch :1974: Albert Spanswick :1983: David Williams :1987: Hector MacKenzie

Presidents

:1946: Claude Bartlett :1962: Ron Farmer :1965: Bob Vickerstaff :1976: Eric Wilson :1982: Sid Ambler :1987: Colin Robinson

References

David Farnham, ''Employee Relations in Context'', p. 268.
(1984). "Trade Union Handbook". Gower.
[[Labour Party (UK). Labour Party]], ''Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party'', pp. 406–431.
''The Times Guide to the House of Commons April 1992'', pp. 32–249.

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