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Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union

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AEEU
Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
Merged intoAmicus
Founded1851
Dissolved2001
Members835,019 (1994)[1]
AffiliationsTUC, CSEU

The Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) was a British trade union. It merged with the MSF to form Amicus in 2001.

History

The union was founded in 1992, when the Amalgamated Engineering Union finally achieved a merger with the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, after a hundred years of off-and-on discussions. [2] The new union took the name Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.[1]

General Secretaries

1992: Gavin Laird and Paul Gallagher
1994: Paul Gallagher
1995: Ken Jackson

Presidents

1992: Bill Jordan
1996: Davey Hall

References

  1. ^ a b Smethurst, John B.; Carter, Peter (2009). Historical Directory of Trade Unions: Including unions in building and construction, agriculture, fishing, chemicals, wood and woodworking, transport, engineering and metalworking, government, civil and public service, shipbuilding, energy and extraction in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Vol. 6. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-6683-7. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  2. ^ Lloyd, John (1990). Light and Liberty: A History of EEPTU. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 9780297796626.