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.
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
1925
- Association of Coastwise Masters, Mates and Engineers
- Weaver Watermen's Association
1926
1929
- Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union (Staffordshire District)
- Workers' Union
1933
- Portadown Textile Workers' Union
- Scottish Farm Servants' Union
- London Co-operative Mutuality Club Collectors' Association
1934
1936
1937
1938
- Humber Amalgamated Steam Trawlers' Engineers, and Firemen's Union
- Imperial War Graves Commission Staff Association
- Port of London Deal Porters' Union
1940
1945
- Leith and Granston Pilots
- Dundee Pilots
- Methil Pilots
1963
1968
1969
1971
- Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union
- Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen's Union
- Chemical Workers' Union
1974
- Union of Bookmakers Employees
- Union of Kodak Workers
1978
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[2]
- National Tile, Faience and Mosaic Fixers' Society[2]
1993
1997
- National Association of Licensed House Managers
2007
In 2007 the T&G merged with Amicus to form Unite.
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See also
References
- "The British merger movement", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.30, No.5
- 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.
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