The ISU has its main office in Harwich, which has overnight and day ferries to and from the Netherlands, 363 days a year. These places have direct rail connections to the places shown, including London and Amsterdam.

The ISU is a British trade union representing representing staff in the Borders, Customs and Immigration functions of the Home Office.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

The union was founded in 1981 as the Immigration Service Union. It was a split from the Society of Civil and Public Servants (SCPS),[8] founded in protest at the SCPS calling for the repeal of the Immigration Act 1971.[9]

The ISU is politically independent and not a member of the Trades Union Congress. PCS, the SCPS's successor, sees ISU as a yellow union, as some senior managers encouraged its splitting off, although its independence has been certified by the Certification Officer.[10][11]

Membership of the union reached 4,263 in 2006,[11] but, in common with all Civil Service unions, fell after the ending of payroll wage check-off (subscriptions automatically deducted where workers have ticked to confirm they wish to be in any recognised union to their employer) in 2015.[12] It declined to 3,018 in that year.[13] In 2020, membership stood at 3,043.[14]

The ISU does not generally take industrial action.[15] In 2012, ISU members followed other public sector unions in agreeing to strike against changes to civil service pensions.[16] This vote resulted in a rapid climbdown on the pension cuts plans.[17][18] Similarly, planned heavy-handed tactics to stem irregular, dangerous, very small vessel immigration have also been the subject of polls for some form of industrial action in 2022.[19]

General Secretaries

1981: P. J. Taylor
1997: Martin Slade
2003: Peter Stowe
2010: Paul Duckhouse
2013: Lucy Moreton
2019: Mark Gribbin

References

  1. ↑ "About us". ISU.
  2. ↑ Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: Fourth Report of Session 2019–21
  3. ↑ Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: Fifth Report of Session 2012–13
  4. ↑ Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: Sixth Report of Session 2012–13
  5. ↑ List of witnesses and job title, Commons Home Affairs Select Committee hearing - the Windrush Generation hearings 25 April 2018
  6. ↑ "ISU Membership Circular 20.04.18".
  7. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus 3-page findings: COVID-19 Variants, International Travel and Border Policy - May 2021
  8. ↑ Steve Cohen, Immigration Controls, the Family and the Welfare State, p.321
  9. ↑ Steve Cohen, Deportation is Freedom!, p.130
  10. ↑ "Trade unions: The current list and schedule".
  11. 1 2 John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.6, p.450
  12. ↑ https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-03-10/debates/15031024000003/TradeUnionReform(CivilService)
  13. ↑ ISU's audited Annual Return, year ending 31 December 2015"
  14. ↑ ISU's audited Annual Return, year ending 31 December 2020 at page P2, note: submitted to the Certification Officer, certified, and republished by the UK government, see 1.
  15. ↑ Susan Corby and Geoff White, Employee Relations in the Public Services: Themes and Issues
  16. ↑ Alan Travis, "Immigration workers to join civil service pension strike", The Guardian, 2 May 2012
  17. ↑ "UK: Passport staff at London Heathrow Airport call off planned industrial action April 1–7 /Update 1".
  18. ↑ "Public sector strike action begins". BBC News.
  19. ↑ "UK Border Force could strike over Channel 'pushback' plan". TheGuardian.com. 5 January 2022.
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