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.
1920s
Founding 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
Later 1922 National Union of Dock, Riverside and General Workers Scottish Union of Dock Labourers National Union of British Fishermen Greenock Sugar Porters' Association
1923 North Wales Craftsmen and General Workers' Union North Wales Quarrymen's Union
1924 Belfast Breadservers' Trade Union United Order of General Labourers
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 Cumberland Enginemen, Boilermen and Electrical Workers' Union
1929 Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union (Staffordshire District) Workers' Union
1930s
1930 Belfast Operative Bakers' Union Northern Ireland Textile Workers' Union
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 National Winding and General Engineers' Society
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 North of England Engineers' and Firemen's Amalgamation
1940s
1940 National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association Radcliffe and District Enginemen and Boilermen's Provident Society National Glass Bottle Makers' Society
1943 Manchester Ship Canal Pilots' Association
1944 Grangemouth Pilots' Association
1945 Leith and Granston Pilots Dundee Pilots Methil Pilots
1947 Government Civil Employees' Association Liverpool and District Carters' and Motormen's Union
1950s
1951 Lurgan Hemmers' Veiners' and General Workers' Union
1952 United Cut Nail Makers of Great Britain Protection Society
1960s
1961 Scottish Textile Workers' Union
1962 National Union of Shale Miners and Oil Workers
1963 Gibraltar Confederation of Labour Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union Gibraltar Labour Trades Union
1965 North of Ireland Operative Butchers' and Allied Workers' Association United Fishermen's Union
1967 Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Coal Trimmers' Union
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
1970s
1970 Sheffield Amalgamated Union of File Trades
1971 Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen's Union Chemical Workers' Union
1972 National Union of Vehicle Builders Scottish Transport and General Workers' Union (Docks)
1973 Iron, Steel and Wood Barge Builders and Helpers Association
1974 Union of Bookmakers Employees Union of Kodak Workers
1975 File Grinders' Society
1976 Grimsby Steam and Diesel Fishing Vessels Engineers' and Firemen's Union
1978 National Association of Youth Hostel Wardens Staff Association for Royal Automobile Club Employees
1980s
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"The British merger movement", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.30, No.5
1987 Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers National Tile, Faience and Mosaic Fixers' Society
1990s
1993 Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers' Society Yorkshire Association of Power Loom OverlookersGary N. Chaison, Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View from Five Countries, pp. 173–184
1995 Electrical and Plumbing Industries Union
1997 National Association of Licensed House Managers
2000s
2000 Northern Carpet Trades Union
2004 National Union of Lock and Metal Workers
2006 Community and Youth Workers' Union
2007 In 2007 the T&G merged with Amicus to form Unite.
See also
List of trade unions
References