Founded 1898 | Date dissolved 1929 | |
Merged into Transport and General Workers' Union Key people Charles Duncan, General Secretary |
The Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom.
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Founded in 1898, in 1919 the Workers' Union joined the National Amalgamated Workers Union, a loose confederation with the Municipal Employees Association and the National Amalgamated Union of Labour, but this dissolved in 1922.
Membership of the union collapsed during the 1920s, with job losses due to the depression, the General Strike of 1926 and disputes over payments to members of the executive committee. In 1929, it merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), with about 100,000 members remaining to transfer. This enabled the TGWU, for the first time, to gain significant numbers of members outside of the docks and transport industries.
General Secretaries
1898: Tom Chambers1900: Charles DuncanPresidents
1898: Charles Duncan1900: Robert Morley1913: John BeardReferences
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