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
editFounding 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
edit1923
edit1924
edit1925
edit1926
edit1928
edit1929
edit- Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union (Staffordshire District)
- Workers' Union
1930s
edit1940s
edit1950s
edit1960s
edit1970s
edit1980s
edit1990s
edit2000s
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "The British merger movement", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.30, No.5
- 1 2 3 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.