Founded 1922 Affiliation ICTU Country Ireland | Members 19,550 Office location Dublin, Ireland | |
Key people Steve Fitzpatrick, General Secretary | ||
The Communication Workers Union is a trade union in Ireland.
The union was founded in 1922 as the Irish Post Office Engineering Union, splitting from the British Post Office Engineering Union following the establishment of the Irish Free State. It was renamed the Communications Union of Ireland in 1985, while in 1989, it was joined by the Postal Telecommunications Workers' Union and adopted its current name.
General Secretaries
1950s: Malachy Dooney 1967: Seamus De Paor 1990: David Begg 1997: Con Scanlon 2004: Steve FitzpatrickReferences
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