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Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (formerly the Railway Clerks' Association)

Catalogue reference: TSS

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This record is about the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (formerly the Railway Clerks' Association) dating from 1897-2014.

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Reference
TSS
Title
Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (formerly the Railway Clerks' Association)
Date
1897-2014
Description

Rules, committee and conference records, records on pay and service conditions, agreements, correpondence files, publications, staffing records, etc.

Held by
Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
Legal status
Not Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (formerly the Railway Clerks' Association)
Physical description
183 boxes
Access conditions

Permission is required from the TSSA research officer before any work based on these records is published. Before being given access to the records, researchers visiting the Centre will be required to sign a confirmation that they have been notified of this condition.

Unpublished finding aids
https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TSS
Administrative / biographical background

The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association was founded as the National Association of General Railway Clerks at a meeting in Sheffield in May 1897. Two years later, the union became the Railway Clerks' Association (RCA). By 1904, the union comprised over four thousand members out of a potential total of 60,000 railway clerical members. The Gray's Inn Press was founded by the union in 1909 to produce the union's publications. The threat of strike action in 1919 forced the railway companies to recognise the RCA, which changed its name in 1951 to the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/9b9d1ad4-568a-4cf1-bc8e-e48b3e0272bb/

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