National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers

The National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers was a trade union in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

NUSMWCHDE
Full nameNational Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers
Founded1920
Date dissolved1983
Merged intoTechnical, Administrative and Supervisory Section
Members74,550 (1980)[1]
JournalThe Journal
AffiliationTUC, CSEU, LMTU, Labour
Office location75/77 West Heath Road, London
CountryUnited Kingdom, Ireland

History

The union was founded in July 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 and the National Amalgamated Association of Tin Plate Workers of Great Britain, and fifteen local unions.[2] 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.[3]

The last independent union for sheet metal workers, the Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers' Society, finally merged into the union in 1973.[4]

The union approved an offer to join the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' Engineering Section in 1979,[1] but this did not go ahead and instead, in 1983, it merged into the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section.[3]

Election results

The union sponsored a Labour Party candidate in the 1979 general election:[5]

ConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
Hendon NorthFrank Arthur Cooper14,37436.02

General Secretaries
1920: Charles Gordon
1922: Charles Hickin
1941: Archibald Kidd
1943: Harry Brotherton
1960: Ted Roberts
1962: Les Buck
1977: George Guy

References
  1. Eaton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN 0861043502.
  2. Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.2, p.120
  3. Papers of National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers 1921-1987, University of Warwick
  4. Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.2, pp.105, 117-118
  5. Labour Party, Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.406-431
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