National Union of Sheet Metal Workers of Ireland

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NUSMWI
Full name National Union of Sheet Metal Workers of Ireland
Founded 1836
Affiliation Irish Congress of Trade Unions (former)
Office location Dublin
Country Ireland

The National Union of Sheet Metal Workers of Ireland (NUSMWI) is a trade union representing workers in sheet metal manufacture and related industries in Ireland.

A trade union, also called a labour union or labor union (US), is an association of workers in a particular trade, industry, or company created for the purpose of securing improvement in pay, benefits, working conditions or social and political status through collective bargaining and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by creation of a monopoly of the workers. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with employers. The most common purpose of these associations or unions is "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment". This may include the negotiation of wages, work rules, complaint procedures, rules governing hiring, firing and promotion of workers, benefits, workplace safety and policies.

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The union was founded in 1836 as a split from the "Dublin Tinsmiths and Sheet Metal Workers Society". It remained very small for many years, with only forty members in 1896. It affiliated to the National Amalgamated Society of Sheet Metal Workers, but when in 1920 that federation became the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers, it became independent again, adopting the name National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Gas Meter Makers. In 1967, it adopted its final name, and by 1970 it had 943 members. [1]

As of December 2014, the union remains registered, but is no longer a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. [2]

Irish Congress of Trade Unions

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trade Union Congress and the Congress of Irish Unions, is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation to which trade unions in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland affiliate.

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References

  1. ↑ Peter Carter and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Vol.6, p.308
  2. ↑ Registry of Friendly Societies, "Report of the Registrar of Friendly Societies 2014"
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