List of Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations explained

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.

1922 (founder members)

• 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

1922 (later amalgamations)

• National Union of Dock, Riverside and General Workers
• Scottish Union of Dock Labourers
• National Union of British Fishermen
• Greenock Sugar Porters' Association

1923

• North Wales Craftsmen and General Workers' Union
• North Wales Quarrymen's Union

1924

• Belfast Breadservers' Trade Union
• United Order of General Labourers

1925

• Association of Coastwise Masters, Mates and Engineers
• Weaver Watermen's Association

1926

• Irish Mental Hospital Workers' Union
• National Amalgamated Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics, Motormen and Electrical Workers

1928

• Cumberland Enginemen, Boilermen and Electrical Workers' Union

1929

• Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union (Staffordshire District)
• Workers' Union

1930

• Belfast Operative Bakers' Union
• Northern Ireland Textile Workers' Union

1933

• Portadown Textile Workers' Union
• Scottish Farm Servants' Union
• London Co-operative Mutuality Club Collectors' Association

1934

• National Union of Co-operative Insurance Society Employees
• Scottish Busmen's Union
• Altogether Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers' Society

1935

• National Winding and General Engineers' Society

1936

• Electricity Supply Staff Association (Dublin)
• Halifax and District Carters' and Motormen's Association

1937

• Power Loom Tenters' Trade Union of Ireland
• Belfast Journeymen Butchers' Association
• Scottish Seafishers' Union

1938

• Humber Amalgamated Steam Trawlers' Engineers, and Firemen's Union
• Imperial War Graves Commission Staff Association
• Port of London Deal Porters' Union

1939

• North of England Engineers' and Firemen's Amalgamation

1940

• National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association
• Radcliffe and District Enginemen and Boilermen's Provident Society
• National Glass Bottle Makers' Society

1943

• Manchester Ship Canal Pilots' Association

1944

• Grangemouth Pilots' Association

1945

• Leith and Granston Pilots
• Dundee Pilots
• Methil Pilots

1947

• Government Civil Employees' Association
• Liverpool and District Carters' and Motormen's Union

1951

• Lurgan Hemmers' Veiners' and General Workers' Union

1952

• United Cut Nail Makers of Great Britain Protection Society

1961

• Scottish Textile Workers' Union

1962

• National Union of Shale Miners and Oil Workers

1963

• Gibraltar Confederation of Labour
• Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union
• Gibraltar Labour Trades Union

1965

• North of Ireland Operative Butchers' and Allied Workers' Association
• United Fishermen's Union

1967

• Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Coal Trimmers' Union

1968

• National Association of Operative Plasterers
• Scottish Slaters, Tilers, Roofers and Cement Workers' Society

1969

• 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

1970

• Sheffield Amalgamated Union of File Trades

1971

• Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union
• Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen's Union
• Chemical Workers' Union

1972

• National Union of Vehicle Builders
• Scottish Transport and General Workers' Union (Docks)

1973

• Iron, Steel and Wood Barge Builders and Helpers Association

1974

• Union of Bookmakers Employees
• Union of Kodak Workers

1975

• File Grinders' Society

1976

• Grimsby Steam and Diesel Fishing Vessels Engineers' and Firemen's Union

1978

• National Association of Youth Hostel Wardens
• Staff Association for Royal Automobile Club Employees

1982

• National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers
• National Amalgamated Stevedores' and Dockers' Society
• National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers

1984

• Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union
• Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union
• Sheffield Sawmakers' Protection Society^[1]

1987

• Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers
• National Tile, Faience and Mosaic Fixers' Society

1993

• Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers' Society^[2]
• Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers^[3]

1995

• Electrical and Plumbing Industries Union

1997

• National Association of Licensed House Managers

2000

• Northern Carpet Trades Union

2004

• National Union of Lock and Metal Workers

2006

• Community and Youth Workers' Union

2007

In 2007 the T&G merged with Amicus to form Unite.

See also

• List of trade unions

Notes and References

1. "The British merger movement", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.30, No.5
2. Web site: 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. 27 March 2018.
3. Gary N. Chaison, Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries, pp. 173–184