GFTU BGCM Report 2019

GFTU AFFILIATES 1899-2019

Edda Nicolson has kindly looked back through the records to compile this first attempt to list all affiliates over the last 120 years. Dates of joining are given. The list depends on the accuracy of the records reviewed and may well be a work in progress.

GFTU Affiliates Since 1899

Name of Affiliate

Date of affiliation

Notes

No of Members

National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives

1899/1900

Seceded 1924

27960

National Amalgamated Society of Brassworkers

1899/1900

8394

Federal Union of Bakers

1899/1900

4433

Barge Builders’Trade Union

1901

420

Midlands Counties Federation of Bleachers and Dyers etc.

1901

1377

Britannia Metal Workers

1901

65

United Operatives of Cabinet and Chairmakers

1899/1900

1216

Alliance of Cabinet Makers and Furniture Trades’ Association

1899/1900

5450

Amalgamated Society of Card and Blowing Room Operatives

1899/1900

22197

Amalgamated Society of Card Setting Machine Tenters

1901

220

Amalgamated Society of Cotton Spinners

1899/1900

18394

London Society of Compositors

1899/1900

11260

Carpenters and Joiners, Perserverance

1899/1900

635 Amalgamated with Associated Shipwrights

National Society of Drillers

1899/1900

London and District Drillers

1899/1900

289

Dock, Wharf and Riverside, and General Labourers

1899/1900

12357

National Union of Dock Labourers

1899/1900

9500

Electrical Trades Union

1899/1900

Seceded in 1926, arrears

959

Amalgamated Society of Engineers

1899/1900

Seceded in 1916

89393

National Amalgamated Society of Enginemen, Cranemen,

1899/1900

3738

Firemen and Boilermen Amalgamated Society of French Polishers

1899/1900

2943

Floor cloth and Linoleum Trade Protection Society

1901

110

Society of Firemen, Dippers etc

1899/1900

950

Engine and Iron Grinders Amalgamation

1899/1900

Seceded in 1957

429

Table Blade Grinders

1899/1900

368

London Society of Glass Blowers

1899/1900

380

National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers

1899/1900

47979

Amalgamated Society of Gasworkers, Bricklayers and

1899/1900

4251

General Labourers National Plate Glass Bevellers

1899/1900

Dissolved 1945

404

Amalgamated Society of Journeymen and Felt Hatters

1899/1900

Dissolved 1945

3092

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