The Constructional Engineering Union (CEU) was a trade union representing steel erectors and other workers involved in steel construction in the United Kingdom.
History The union was founded in 1924 as a section of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC). It left the ISTC and became an independent union in 1930. In 1971, the union merged with the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, becoming the largely autonomous construction section of the new union.
Election results The union sponsored a successful Labour Party candidate in several Parliamentary elections.
Election Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage Position 1964 general election Bothwell 27,556 60.4 1Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.158-180 1966 general election Bothwell 27,166 61.0 1Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.308-330 1970 general election Bothwell 26,431 54.7 1Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.289-312
General Secretaries 1924: George House 1939: Jack Stanley 1957: Ernie Patterson 1968: Eddie Marsden
References
External links Catalogue of the CEU archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick