The Jordanian Engineers Association (in Arabic

Arabic language

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: نقابة المهندسين الأردنيين) is a trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 of engineers in Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

, and claims to be the largest trade union in the country. It was founded in 1972.

Its predecessor organizations were the Jordanian Association of Engineers (جمعية المهندسين الأردنية) founded in 1953 and the Engineering Professional Union ( نقابة أصحاب المهن الهندسية) founded in 1958.

The JEA started a campaign for unemployed engineers.