Chemical Workers' Union (UK)

Chemical Workers' Union
Founded 1918
Date dissolved 1971
Merged into Transport and General Workers' Union
Members 3,376 (1926)
Key people Robert Edwards (General Secretary)
Country United Kingdom

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.[1] 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.[2]

It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1971.

Its General Secretary from 1947 until 1971 was Robert Edwards.

General Secretaries

1924: Arthur J. Gillan
1947: Robert Edwards

See also

References

  1. ↑ Smethurst, John B.; Carter, Peter (2009). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. 6. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7546-6683-7. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Marsh, Arthur; Ryan, Victoria (2006). Marsh, Arthur, ed. Historical Directory of Trade Unions: Including unions in Printing and Publishing, Local Government, Retail and Distribution, Domestic Services, General Employment, Financial Services, Agriculture. 5. Ashgate Publishing. p. 483. ISBN 978-0-85967-990-9. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
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