Civil and Public Services Union

The Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) was an Irish trade union for clerical and administrative grades in the civil service, the wider public sector and the private sector.John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, p.368 It was a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

The union was founded in 1922 by the Dublin branch of the Civil Service Clerical Association.

At the start of 2018, the CPSU merged with the Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union and the Public Service Executive Union to form Fórsa.Tim O'Brien, Three unions merge to create new Fórsa 'super union' for public service workers, The Irish Times, 20 November 2017.

General Secretaries 1922: Tom O'Shea 1924: D. J. Cregan 1924: J. Hogan 1926: J. Burke 1928: Archie Heron 1941: D. Ó Connáill 1948: D. A. Morrissey 1953: W. J. Farrell 1961: H. V. Murtagh 1967: P. B. Gillespie 1969: Billy Lynch 1988: John O'Dowd 1999: Blair Horan 2012: Éoin Ronayne

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