Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union
- Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union
Established as the National Asylum Workers Union in 1910 by Lancashire Asylum attendandts.
George Gibson General secretary 1912 - 1947
In 1916 lost its membership in Southern Ireland to the Irish Mental hospital Workers Union
In 1931 changed its name to the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union
The union had by 1946, when it amalgamated to form the Confederation of Health Service Employees, COHSE secured a very high membership amongst mental hospital staff, including the vast majority of mental hospital nurses
[http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/229na.htm Papers of the National Asylum Workers' Union and the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union held by Warwick University]
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