Founded 1918 Members 3,376 (1926) | Date dissolved 1971 Country United Kingdom | |
Merged into Transport and General Workers' Union Key people Robert Edwards (General Secretary) | ||
The Chemical Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1918 as the National Drug and Chemical Union and had a membership of 2,972 by 1923. It absorbed the National Association of Chemists Assistants and by 1926 had grown to a membership of 3,376. In 1961 it absorbed the National Union of Atomic Workers, which had formed in the 1950s as a breakaway from the Transport and General Workers Union.
It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1971.
Its General Secretary from 1947 until 1971 was Robert Edwards.
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