BACM teams up with Prospect

Members of the mining union British Association of Colliery Management — Technical, Energy and Administration Management (BACM-TEAM) have voted overwhelmingly to merge with the professionals’ union Prospect.

More than 96% of those voting supported a transfer of engagements in a ballot conducted by the Electoral Reform Society. The merger is expected to go ahead on 1 November when BACM’s 450 working members and 1,400 retired members will become part of Prospect. BACM will become a branch of Prospect’s energy sector with its own distinct brand, and be serviced from Prospect’s Wakefield Office.

BACM general secretary Pat Carragher said the decision backed the national executive committee’s view that the BACM members’ interests “would be best protected by a merger with Prospect”.

Garry Graham, Prospect deputy general secretary, said the merger strengthens the union as a “credible voice in the energy debate at a time when energy policy has never been higher up the political agenda”.

www.prospect.org.uk/news/id/2014/September/17/BACM-joins-Prospect