Communication Workers Union (Ireland)

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Communication Workers Union
Founded1922
Headquarters Dublin, Ireland
Location
Members19,550 [1]
Key people
Seán McDonagh, General Secretary
Affiliations ICTU
Website www.cwu.ie

The Communication Workers Union is a trade union in Ireland.

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The union was founded in 1922 as the Irish Post Office Engineering Union, splitting from the British Post Office Engineering Union following the establishment of the Irish Free State. The following year, it merged with the Irish Postal Union and the Irish Postal Workers' Union, forming the United Postal Union, but the IPOEU was unhappy with the arrangements, and so withdrew before the merger was completed, continuing an independent existence. [2]

It was renamed the Communications Union of Ireland in 1985, while in 1989, it was joined by the Postal Telecommunications Workers' Union and adopted its current name. [2]

General Secretaries

1945: Francis Walsh [3]
1946: Seán Mac Bhárd [3]
1949: Malachy Dooney [3]
1967: Seamus De Paor [3]
1990: David Begg
1997: Con Scanlon
2004: Steve Fitzpatrick
2022: Seán McDonagh

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References

  1. ↑ Unions Affiliated to Congress 2010 Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine , ICTU
  2. 1 2 Smethurst, John B.; Carter, Peter (June 2009). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 6. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. pp.  374, 456. ISBN   9780754666837. LCCN   80-151653.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Devine, Francis; Smethurst, John B. (2017). Historical Directory of Trade Unions in Ireland (PDF). Dublin: Irish Labour History Society & Working Class Movement Library. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
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