Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers

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Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers
Merged into Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers
Founded1946
Dissolved31 December 1967
Headquarters164 Chorlton Road, Manchester
Location
Members
72,000 (1967)
Affiliations TUC, ITUC, CSEU, Labour

The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers (AUFW) was a trade union representing workers in foundries in the United Kingdom.

Contents

The union was founded in 1946 with the merger of the National Union of Foundry Workers, the Ironfounding Workers' Association and the United Metal Founders' Society. In 1962, the North of England Brass, Aluminium, Bronze and Kindred Alloys Moulders' Trade and Friendly Society merged into the AUF, and the Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries Trades Union joined in 1967. Later that year, the union merged with the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers, acting as the foundry section of the new union. [1] At this point, the union had around 72,000 members. [2]

Election results

The union sponsored Roland Casasola as a Labour Party candidate in two Parliamentary elections. [3]

ElectionConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
1950 general election Manchester Moss Side Roland Casasola 16,76937.52
1951 general election Blackburn West Roland Casasola 16,99646.32

Leadership

General Secretaries

1946: Jim Gardner [4]
1958: Tommy Graham
1960: David Lambert

Presidents

1946: Bill Wallace [4]
1947: Archibald MacDougall [4]
1954: Roland Casasola
1958: Fred Hollingsworth

Assistant General Secretaries

1946: Tom Colvin [4]
1958: Tommy Graham
1958: David Lambert
1960:

Further reading

Hubert Jim Fyrth and Henry Collins, The Foundry Workers: a trade union history

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References

  1. Archives Hub, "Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine "
  2. James C. Docherty and Sjaak van der Velden, Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor, p.24
  3. David Howell, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.IV, pp.52-55
  4. 1 2 3 4 Fryth, H. J.; Collins, Henry (1950). The Foundry Workers. Manchester: Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers.