Trade union
TheAmalgamated Textile Workers' Union (ATWU) was atrade union inGreat Britain.[1]
The union was founded in 1974, when theAmalgamated Weavers' Association merged with theNational Union of Textile and Allied Workers.[2] TheAmalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association developed close links with the new union, and the two shared a general secretary.[3]
In 1983, the importantBurnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union decided to leave the ATWU, and argued that as its largest affiliate, it should be entitled to a proportionate share of the union's funds. The ATWU disagreed, and the dispute went to theHigh Court of England and Wales, which rejected the Burnley and Nelson union's claim.[4]
With widespread redundancies in the industry, the union lost two-thirds of its members before it merged into theGeneral, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union in 1985.[5] Based inRochdale, the union's final general secretary was Jack Brown.[1]
By 1982, the union had the following affiliates:[6]
- Blackburn and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association
- Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers
- Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association
- Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union
- Colne and Craven Textile Workers' Association
- Oldham Provincial Union of Textile and Allied Workers
- National Union of Textile and Allied Workers, Rochdale and Districts
- Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union
- North Lancashire and Cumbria Textile Workers' Association
- North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union
- Rochdale and Todmorden District of the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union
- Southern Area
- Staff Section
- Wigan
General Secretaries
[edit]- 1974:Fred Hague andJoe King
- 1975: Fred Hague
- 1976:Jack Brown
- 1974:Jim Browning
- 1976: Joe Quinn
- 1984: Albert Hilton
- ^abG. P. and S. P. A. Henderson,Directory of British Associations & Associations in Ireland (8th Edition), p.7
- ^"Amalgamated Textile Workers' UnionArchived 2016-03-04 at theWayback Machine", Archives Hub
- ^Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan,Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.4, pp.186-187
- ^Honeyball, Simon (2012).Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law (12 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 345.ISBN 019963985X.
- ^Gary N. Chalson,Union mergers in hard times: the view from five countries, pp.91-92
- ^Marsh, Arthur (1984).Trade Union Handbook (3 ed.). Aldershot: Gower. pp. 350–352.ISBN 0566024268.
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