Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees

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Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees
Merged into National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers
Founded1891
Dissolved1921
HeadquartersLong Millgate, Manchester
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
51,399 (1915 [1] )
Affiliations TUC, Labour

The Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees (AUCE) was a trade union representing retail and related staff of co-operative businesses in the United Kingdom.

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The union was founded in 1891 at a meeting in Romiley and was originally named the Manchester and District Co-operative Employees Association. [2] Initially, it had joint secretaries, J. Thompson and Alfred Hewitt, but Thompson left the industry later in the year, leaving Hewitt as sole secretary until 1916. [3]

From 1895, it accepted members from across the country, changing its name to the "Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees" and merging with the Bolton and District Co-operative Employees Association. On its formation its net assets were a modest £98 2s 2d. Its membership was 2,151, but the merger commenced a rapid rise in membership, from 2,414 in 1896 to 6,733 in 1900, 25,139 in 1908 and 44,000 by 1914. The membership always included women, although they formed only a small proportion of the total, and from at least 1909, it included workers in Ireland. [2]

In 1917, the union renamed itself as the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative and Commercial and Allied Workers; despite the change in name, the union's constitution specified that its short form would remain "AUCE". [4] In 1920, the Co-operative Agents' Union joined, but at the start of 1921, the AUCE merged with the National Warehouse and General Workers' Union, creating the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers. [2]

General Secretaries

1891: J. Thompson and Alfred Hewitt
1891: Alfred Hewitt
1916: Joseph Hallsworth

General Presidents

1891: James Dyson
1897: Thomas Howe
1915: Robert Bell Padley
1919: John Jagger

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References

  1. ↑ Gide, Charles (1971). Consumers' Co-Operative Societies. Ardent Media. p. 210.
  2. 1 2 3 Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, p.104
  3. ↑ William Richardson, A Union of Many Trades: The History of USDAW, p.21
  4. ↑ William Richardson, A Union of Many Trades: The History of USDAW, p.66
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