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Amicus - Manufacturing, technical and skilled persons' union (formed by a merger between AEEU and MSF). Includes national and regional Amicus news, membership details, campaigns and membership services.
Amicus Federation of Professional Associations (FPA) - Amicus section for professional and managerial staff. A grouping of specialist professional, technical and managerial associations.
Association of Management and Professional Staffs - Represents graduate scientists in the UK chemical industry and managers, scientists and other graduate level staff in a range of science based industries, including a special section for professional divers. A self governing section of Amicus.
British Cement Staff Association - Trade union and autonomous association within Amicus.
British Transport Officers Guild (BTOG) - An autonomous association within Amicus Federation of Professional Associations.
Cabin Crew 89 - Independent trade union allied to Amicus, representing aviation workers in Britain.
Electrical and Engineering Staff Association (EESA) - Union for represents technical, managerial, administrative, clerical and managerial staff in a variety of industries. Part of Amicus.
Probation Manager's Association - Union within Amicus representing managers in the National Probation Service.
United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers - Represents chartered engineers and other professionals employed in engineering organisations. Includes information about benefits and sample cases of successful UKAPE intercession on behalf of members. Affiliated with Amicus.
Whitehall On-line - Amicus residential education centre, Whitehall College, in Bishop's Stortford. Includes training resources for members and activists.
Amicus Unity Gazette - Campaigning for a democratic union controlled by the members. Includes candidate details and policy statements.
Amicus NEC member David C Houliston - A brief personal and trade union history including personal publications on the NHS, Pathology and Amicus National Executive Council. Includes contact details, meeting and event dates.
Association of Professional Tourist Guides (APTG) - The professional body of London's Blue Badge guides, many of whom are registered with other tourist boards in the UK. An autonomous section of Amicus.
Communication Managers Association (CMA) - Autonomous section of Amicus representing managers, supervisors and executives in the British Post Office.
Disability Champions @ Work - Amicus project to train and support workplace representatives to become promote disability issues in the workplace.
Information Technology Professionals Association (UK) - Home page of the Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA), an autonomous section of Amicus established to promote the interests of information technology professionals.
London Computer Staffs Amicus Branch - Information on branch officers, activities, supported organisations and branch meetings.
Shropshire 0264 Amicus Branch - Union branch based in Shrewsbury and Telford with members in manufacturing, NHS and voluntary sectors.
Amicus South West Regional Council - Meeting and contact information for Amicus in the South West of England.
Offshore Worker - Amicus union news and information for workers in the offshore oil and gas industry.
Professional Sales Association (PSA) - A semi-autonomous section of Amicus representing mainly self-employed commercial sales agents, with newsletter, bulletin board and listing of training seminars.
Rugby District Amicus Branch 0574 - Meeting minutes, newsletter, who's who, articles, reports and membership information.
Society of Sexual Health Advisors - SSHA is an autonomous professional section of Amicus representing and providing support for sexual health advisors working in NHS clinics.
BMW (UK) Oxford 0681 Amicus Branch - Represents managers, staff and skilled workers at the BMW car factory in Cowley, Oxford.
Amicus North Thames Regional Council - Lists officers with email addresses, date of next meeting.
Amicus CIS Manchester Branch - Represents Amicus members working for the Cooperative Insurance Society in Manchester.
Amicus Prudential Section - Includes information, and benefits of membership.
Amicus 0474 Brighton ISS Branch - Includes advice on bullying, call centres and part-time working, plus union news.
Amicus 9827 Greater Manchester IT Branch - Includes Fujitsu (formerly ICL) West Gorton Group.
3rd Sector Union - Amicus's section for workers in the voluntary and non-profit sector.
Amicus Health - News, advice and events for members of the Amicus union working for the National Health Service in the UK.
Amicus Merseyside & Cheshire Health Service - Local branch information for members of Amicus in the Merseyside and Cheshire area Health Service.
Amicus Community Practioners and Health Visitors Association (CPHVA) - UK professional body that represents registered nurses and health visitors who work in primary or community health care.
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists - Affiliated to Amicus and representing registered UK pharmacists, pre-registration students or those with reciprocal or equivalent qualifications who hold (or have held) appointments with UK Health Authorities, Heath Boards, NHS Trusts, FHSA's or similar institutions.
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists in Scotland - Scottish District Member reports, Scottish GHP Group pages, Agenda for Change bulletins, RepsDirect bulletins news and joining information.
Hospital Physicists' Association - Union formed in 1943 in order to look after the interests of medical physicists employed in the NHS; in 1993, affiliated to Amicus.
Speech and Language Therapists Agenda for Change Information - Updates, information archive and an email newsletter on changes in health service pay and conditions.
Bristol University Amicus Branch 0348 - Branch executive, representatives, news, meetings and services to members.
Keele University Amicus Branch - Union representing technical and technical related staf at Keele University.
King's College Amicus Branch - Contains information on branch officers, structure, news and campaign reports.
Amicus Queens University Belfast - Union representing technicians and other support staff at this Northern Irish university.
Amicus MSF Southampton University Branch - Represents technical staff at Southampton University.
Amicus Tayside Educational Branch - Pay talks, pay scales, news, forthcoming meetings, membership benefits and contacts.
Amicus University of Exeter Branch 0358 - Trade union for technical and technical related staff at the University of Exeter.
University of Sheffield Amicus Branch - Branch meetings, officers, subscription details and pay offers.
Amicus MSF University of Wales, Bangor Branch - Details of representatives and news from the University Council.
University of York Amicus Branch - News, meetings, committee members and safety representatives.
Community Psychiatric Nurses Association - Professional association and Trade Union for mental health nurses. Affiliated to Amicus.
Amicus Tyneside Health Services Branch - Local union branch for Tyneside Health Services. Includes email list, news and information for members.
Amicus NW Regional Site - Information for North West region Amicus members. Includes contact and membership information.
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Amicus English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Amicus "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Amicus It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Amicus "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Amicus There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Amicus "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Amicus Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Amicus Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Amicus I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Amicus Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Amicus Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Amicus "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Amicus An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Amicus Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Amicus The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Amicus It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Amicus The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Amicus I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Amicus There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Amicus Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Amicus The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Amicus
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