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With the growth in membership in sectors outside local government such as health, gas and electricity, the union changed its full name in 1952, to the
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At the same time, at local level in much of the country many members maintained the old idea of NALGO as a staff association, and this explains why many so-called "NALGO" social clubs, sports teams and so on remained popular. NALGO provided a wide range of benefits for its members and opened one of
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Although Hill had previously remarked that "anything savouring of trade unionism is nausea to the local government officer", NALGO sought a certificate from the
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Blain and Hill organised NALGO with a national delegate conference and regional and local branch structures. Its first aims were the setting up of a pension scheme; the improvement of the pay, conditions and status of local government officers; the abolition of
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for local government was formed on NALGO's insistence. After a prolonged process of negotiations, NALGO and the employers agreed a national charter of pay scales in local government in 1946.
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and wider equality and international issues. Total membership rose to over 700,000 by 1977, by which time it was by far the largest UK public sector union.
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in 1896 and, on moving to London, arranged the national conference in 1905 at which NALGO was formed. In 1909, the first full-time
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simultaneously sought to curb trade union powers, some parts of the union became more radicalised. NALGO organised its first official
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189:(1883–1961), was appointed, and by 1914 NALGO's membership included almost 70% of all British local government officers.
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in Leeds in 1970, and its first national strike, of
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Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden
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