Engineering and Fastener Trade Union explained

EFTU
Location Country:United Kingdom
Affiliation:TUC, CSEU, GFTU[1]
Members:4,000 (1977)
Full Name:Engineering and Fastener Trade Union
Founded:1914
Dissolved:2004
Merged Label:Dissolved
Headquarters:368 Dudley Road, Birmingham

The Engineering and Fastener Trade Union was a trade union based in the West Midlands of England.

History

The union was founded in 1914 as the Screw Nut Bolt and Rivet Trade Union. It represented workers who used machinery to make screws, nuts, bolts and rivets. As the handmade section of the industry declined, it gained members from the National Amalgamated Society of Nut and Bolt Makers. Its membership remained just below 2,000 from the mid-1920s to 1956, when it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.[2] By 1977, membership was estimated at 4,000.[3] In 1989, the union changed its name to the "Engineering and Fastener Trade Union". By the mid-1990s, membership was down to 240, all of whom worked at GKN.[2] The union was dissolved in 2004.[4]

General Secretaries

J. R. Smith

1940s: F. A. Smith

1950s: H. Cater

1981: E. C. Bowcott

1988: W. Redmond

1990: J. Burdis

2000: A. Evans

References

  1. Book: Eaton. Jack. Gill. Colin. The Trade Union Directory. 1981. Pluto Press. London. 0861043502. 103.
  2. Book: Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Smethurst. John B.. Carter. Peter. 2009. . 6. Farnham, Surrey. 978-0-7546-6683-7. 244–245.
  3. Book: Marsh, Arthur Ivor . Trade union handbook: a guide and directory to the structure, membership, policy, and personnel of British trade unions . 1991 . . 85.
  4. http://www.chelmsford-tuc.org.uk/article76.html A Snapshot of Trade Union Events