The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB). The NUM took part in three national miners' strikes, in 1972, 1974 and 1984–85. After the 1984–85 strike, and the subsequent closure of most of Britain's coal mines, it became a much smaller union. It had around 170,000 members when Arthur Scargill became leader in 1981, a figure which had fallen in 2015 to an active membership of around 100.
The Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) was established after a meeting of local mining trade unions in Newport, Wales in 1888. The federation was formed to represent and co-ordinate the affairs of local and regional miners' unions in England, Scotland and Wales whose associations remained largely autonomous. At its peak, the federation represented nearly one million workers. It was reorganised into the National Union of Mineworkers in 1945.
William Parrott was a British coalminer, trade union official and Liberal–Labour (Lib–Lab) politician.
Benjamin Pickard, usually Ben Pickard, was a British coal miner, trade unionist and Lib–Lab politician.
Herbert Smith was a British trade unionist and miner.
Carolyn Louise Baylies, was an American academic and activist. She was particularly active in the fields of health and sociology of the third world and international development, and especially on the gendered aspects of development. Baylies was particularly notable for her work on the ways in which the AIDS epidemic threatened existing social structures and food security, a connection which she was one of the first to make.
James Walton was a British miner, trade unionist and politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley in Yorkshire from 1918 to 1922.
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The Yorkshire Miners' Association was a British trade union. It is now an integral part of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
William Ernest Jones, CBE was a British trade unionist.
Allen Gee was a British trade unionist and politician.
Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (1984–85), a major event in the history of the British labour movement.
Joseph Robert Alwyn Machen was an English trade union leader who was president of the Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers and posthumously elected president of the National Union of Mineworkers.
The Miners' National Union (MNU) was a trade union which represented miners in Great Britain.
John Dixon was a British trade unionist.
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William Brown was a British coal miner who became a prominent trade unionist.
Harry Dack (1877–1954) was a British trade unionist and politician.
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This article is about the sponsorship of British Members of Parliament by mining trade unions.
