List of TGWU 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
1923
1924
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
1929
- Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union (Staffordshire District)
- Workers' Union
1930
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
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
1940
- National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association
- Radcliffe and District Enginemen and Boilermen's Provident Society
- National Glass Bottle Makers' Society
1943
1944
1945
1947
1951
1952
1961
1962
1963
- Gibraltar Confederation of Labour
- Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union
- Gibraltar Labour Trades Union
1965
1967
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
1971
- Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union
- Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen's Union
- Chemical Workers' Union
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
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
1995
- Electrical and Plumbing Industries Union
2000
2004
2006
2007
In 2007 the T&G merged with Amicus to form Unite.
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