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Address NUM ITGWU ICuts Women "JOBLESS KEY TO ¡Tebbit h By Marry Kent's Sloan appeal to. ducing incentive schemes for manual workers in local government and hospitals. Agreements recognised stewards for the first time in local government in 1969 and in the Health Service in 1971.
NUPE stewards
NUPE, the largest public sector union, recognised stewards for the first time in 1970, and by 1981 claimed 23,000. Steward systems were introduced on the docks, on ships and in schools.
Workplace representatives in textiles and shops began to call themselves stewards in 1977. NALGO introduced a shop steward system.
An increasing hierarchy and professionalisation of stewards went along with this growth.
Brown, Ebsworth and Terry estimated that in 1976 there were around 5,000 full-time stewards covering manual workers in manufacturing. Their study showed that in manufacOrganiser September 1983 Page no.145