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Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union

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Founded
  
1974

Affiliation
  
TUC

Date dissolved
  
1985

Country
  
United Kingdom

Merged into
  
General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union

Office location
  
Textile Union Centre, Rochdale

The Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union (ATWU) was a trade union in Great Britain.

The union was founded in 1974, when the Amalgamated Weavers' Association merged with the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers. The Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association developed close links with the new union, and the two shared a general secretary.

With widespread redundancies in the industry, the union lost two-thirds of its members before it merged into the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union in 1985. Based in Rochdale, the union's final general secretary was Jack Brown.

General Secretaries

1974: Fred Hague and Joe King 1975: Fred Hague 1976: Jack Brown

References

Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Wikipedia