List of Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations
The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was created in 1922 from a merger of fourteen unions and continued to grow through a series of mergers, amalgamations and transfers of engagements. This process, which is recorded below in chronological order, continued through to 2007 when the TGWU itself merged with Amicus to form a new union called UNITE.
1920s
[edit]Founding Members
[edit]- Amalgamated Society of Watermen, Lightermen and Bargemen
- Amalgamated Carters, Lurrymen and Motormen's Union
- Amalgamated Association of Carters and Motormen
- Associated Horsemen's Union
- Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union
- Labour Protection League
- National Amalgamated Labourers' Union
- National Union of Docks, Wharves and Shipping Staffs
- National Union of Ships' Clerks, Grain Weighers and Coalmeters
- National Union of Vehicle Workers
- National Amalgamated Coal Workers' Union
- North of England Trimmers' and Teemers Association
- North of Scotland Horse and Motormen's Association
- United Vehicle Workers
Later 1922
[edit]- National Union of Dock, Riverside and General Workers
- Scottish Union of Dock Labourers
- National Union of British Fishermen
- Greenock Sugar Porters' Association
1923
[edit]1924
[edit]1925
[edit]1926
[edit]- Irish Mental Hospital Workers' Union
- National Amalgamated Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics, Motormen and Electrical Workers
1928
[edit]1929
[edit]- Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union (Staffordshire District)
- Workers' Union
1930s
[edit]1930
[edit]1933
[edit]- Portadown Textile Workers' Union
- Scottish Farm Servants' Union
- London Co-operative Mutuality Club Collectors' Association
1934
[edit]- National Union of Co-operative Insurance Society Employees
- Scottish Busmen's Union
- Altogether Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers' Society
1935
[edit]1936
[edit]- Electricity Supply Staff Association (Dublin)
- Halifax and District Carters' and Motormen's Association
1937
[edit]- Power Loom Tenters' Trade Union of Ireland
- Belfast Journeymen Butchers' Association
- Scottish Seafishers' Union
1938
[edit]- Humber Amalgamated Steam Trawlers' Engineers, and Firemen's Union
- Imperial War Graves Commission Staff Association
- Port of London Deal Porters' Union
1939
[edit]1940s
[edit]1940
[edit]- National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association
- Radcliffe and District Enginemen and Boilermen's Provident Society
- National Glass Bottle Makers' Society
1943
[edit]1944
[edit]1945
[edit]1947
[edit]1950s
[edit]1951
[edit]1952
[edit]1960s
[edit]1961
[edit]1962
[edit]1963
[edit]- Gibraltar Confederation of Labour
- Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union
- Gibraltar Labour Trades Union
1965
[edit]1967
[edit]1968
[edit]- National Association of Operative Plasterers
- Scottish Slaters, Tilers, Roofers and Cement Workers' Society
1969
[edit]- Amalgamated Society of Foremen Lightermen of River Thames
- Irish Union of Hairdressers and Allied Workers
- Port of Liverpool Staff Association
- Process and General Workers' Union
1970s
[edit]1970
[edit]1971
[edit]- Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union
- Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen's Union
- Chemical Workers' Union
1972
[edit]1973
[edit]1974
[edit]1975
[edit]1976
[edit]1978
[edit]1980s
[edit]1982
[edit]- National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers
- National Amalgamated Stevedores' and Dockers' Society
- National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers
1984
[edit]- Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union
- Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union
- Sheffield Sawmakers' Protection Society[1]
1987
[edit]- Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers[2]
- National Tile, Faience and Mosaic Fixers' Society[2]
1990s
[edit]1993
[edit]- Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers' Society[3]
- Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers[2]
1995
[edit]1997
[edit]2000s
[edit]2000
[edit]2004
[edit]2006
[edit]2007
[edit]In 2007 the T&G merged with Amicus to form Unite.
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]- ^ "The British merger movement", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.30, No.5
- ^ a b c Gary N. Chaison, Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries, pp. 173–184
- ^ "Transfer of engagements of Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers Friendly Relief, Sick, Superannuation and Burial Society to Transport and General Workers Union". The National Archives. Retrieved 27 March 2018.