- National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers
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N.U.S.M.W.C.H.&D. Full name National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers Founded 1920 Date dissolved 1983 Merged into Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section Country United Kingdom, Ireland The National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers was a trade union in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The union was founded in 1920 as the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers with the merger of a number of unions, including the General Union of Tinplate Workers. It merged with the competing National Society of Coppersmiths, Braziers and Metal Workers in 1959, renaming itself the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Coppersmiths. Following its 1967 merger with the Heating and Domestic Engineers' Union, it took its final, lengthy name.[1]
In 1983, the union merged into the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section.[1]
General Secretaries
- 1920: John Charles Gordon
- 1922: Charles Hickin
- 1941: Harry Brotherton
- 1961: Les Buck
- 1977: George Guy
References
Categories:- Former British trade unions
- Metal trade unions
- Organizations established in 1920
- Organizations disestablished in 1983
- Trade unions in the Republic of Ireland
- 1920 establishments in the United Kingdom
- Engineering trade unions
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