National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
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The National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers (NUTGW) was a trade union
in the United Kingdom
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The union was founded as the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union in 1920 with the merger of the Scottish Operative Tailors and Tailoresses' Association and the United Garment Workers' Union. In 1932, it was joined by the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and renamed itself as the "National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers". It was subsequently joined by the United Ladies' Tailors' Trade Union and the Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union before, in 1991, merging into the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades 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...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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The union was founded as the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union in 1920 with the merger of the Scottish Operative Tailors and Tailoresses' Association and the United Garment Workers' Union. In 1932, it was joined by the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and renamed itself as the "National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers". It was subsequently joined by the United Ladies' Tailors' Trade Union and the Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union before, in 1991, merging into the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union.
General Secretaries
- 1920: Andrew ConleyAndrew ConleyAndrew Conley was a British trade unionist.Born in Leeds to Irish parents, Conley fought in the Second Boer War...
- 1948: Anne LoughlinAnne LoughlinDame Anne Loughlin, DBE was a British labour activist and organiser.Loughlin was born in Leeds, England. Her father, Thomas, was a boot and shoe operative of Irish descent. When Anne was 12 her mother died, and she had to care for her four sisters...
- 1953: John E. Newton
- 1969: Jack MacgouganJack MacgouganJack Macgougan was a trade unionist and socialist activist in Ireland.Born in Belfast to a Protestant family, Macgougan became an active trade unionist at an early age, and joined the Socialist Party of Northern Ireland, a Northern Ireland Labour Party-affiliate split from the Independent Labour...
- 1978: Alex Smith