List of Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations
# List of Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations

The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was created in 1922 from a merger of fourteen unions and continued to grow through a series of mergers, amalgamations and transfers of engagements. This process, which is recorded below in chronological order, continued through to 2007 when the TGWU itself merged with Amicus to form a new union called UNITE.

## 1922 (founder members)

* Amalgamated Society of Watermen, Lightermen and Bargemen
* Amalgamated Carters, Lurrymen and Motormen's Union
* Amalgamated Association of Carters and Motormen
* Associated Horsemen's Union
* Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union
* Labour Protection League
* National Amalgamated Labourers' Union
* National Union of Docks, Wharves and Shipping Staffs
* National Union of Ships' Clerks, Grain Weighers and Coalmeters
* National Union of Vehicle Workers
* National Amalgamated Coal Workers' Union
* North of England Trimmers' and Teemers Association
* North of Scotland Horse and Motormen's Association
* United Vehicle Workers

## 1922 (later amalgamations)

* National Union of Dock, Riverside and General Workers
* Scottish Union of Dock Labourers
* National Union of British Fishermen
* Greenock Sugar Porters' Association

## 1923

* North Wales Craftsmen and General Workers' Union
* North Wales Quarrymen's Union

## 1924

* Belfast Breadservers' Trade Union
* United Order of General Labourers

## 1925

* Association of Coastwise Masters, Mates and Engineers
* Weaver Watermen's Association

## 1926

* Irish Mental Hospital Workers' Union
* National Amalgamated Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics, Motormen and Electrical Workers

## 1928

* Cumberland Enginemen, Boilermen and Electrical Workers' Union

## 1929

* Public Works and Constructional Operatives' Union (Staffordshire District)
* Workers' Union

## 1930

* Belfast Operative Bakers' Union
* Northern Ireland Textile Workers' Union

## 1933

* Portadown Textile Workers' Union
* Scottish Farm Servants' Union
* London Co-operative Mutuality Club Collectors' Association

## 1934

* National Union of Co-operative Insurance Society Employees
* Scottish Busmen's Union
* Altogether Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers' Society

## 1935

* National Winding and General Engineers' Society

## 1936

* Electricity Supply Staff Association (Dublin)
* Halifax and District Carters' and Motormen's Association

## 1937

* Power Loom Tenters' Trade Union of Ireland
* Belfast Journeymen Butchers' Association
* Scottish Seafishers' Union

## 1938

* Humber Amalgamated Steam Trawlers' Engineers, and Firemen's Union
* Imperial War Graves Commission Staff Association
* Port of London Deal Porters' Union

## 1939

* North of England Engineers' and Firemen's Amalgamation

## 1940

* National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association
* Radcliffe and District Enginemen and Boilermen's Provident Society
* National Glass Bottle Makers' Society

## 1943

* Manchester Ship Canal Pilots' Association

## 1944

* Grangemouth Pilots' Association

## 1945

* Leith and Granston Pilots
* Dundee Pilots
* Methil Pilots

## 1947

* Government Civil Employees' Association
* Liverpool and District Carters' and Motormen's Union

## 1951

* Lurgan Hemmers' Veiners' and General Workers' Union

## 1952

* United Cut Nail Makers of Great Britain Protection Society

## 1961

* Scottish Textile Workers' Union

## 1962

* National Union of Shale Miners and Oil Workers

## 1963

* Gibraltar Confederation of Labour
* Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union
* Gibraltar Labour Trades Union

## 1965

* North of Ireland Operative Butchers' and Allied Workers' Association
* United Fishermen's Union

## 1967

* Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Coal Trimmers' Union

## 1968

* National Association of Operative Plasterers
* Scottish Slaters, Tilers, Roofers and Cement Workers' Society

## 1969

* Amalgamated Society of Foremen Lightermen of River Thames
* Irish Union of Hairdressers and Allied Workers
* Port of Liverpool Staff Association
* Process and General Workers' Union

## 1970

* Sheffield Amalgamated Union of File Trades

## 1971

* Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union
* Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen's Union
* Chemical Workers' Union

## 1972

* National Union of Vehicle Builders
* Scottish Transport and General Workers' Union (Docks)

## 1973

* Iron, Steel and Wood Barge Builders and Helpers Association

## 1974

* Union of Bookmakers Employees
* Union of Kodak Workers

## 1975

* File Grinders' Society

## 1976

* Grimsby Steam and Diesel Fishing Vessels Engineers' and Firemen's Union

## 1978

* National Association of Youth Hostel Wardens
* Staff Association for Royal Automobile Club Employees

## 1982

* National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers
* National Amalgamated Stevedores' and Dockers' Society
* National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers

## 1984

* Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union
* Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union
* Sheffield Sawmakers' Protection Society

## 1987

* Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers
* National Tile, Faience and Mosaic Fixers' Society

## 1993

* Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers' Society
* Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers

## 1995

* Electrical and Plumbing Industries Union

## 1997

* National Association of Licensed House Managers

## 2000

* Northern Carpet Trades Union

## 2004

* National Union of Lock and Metal Workers

## 2006

* Community and Youth Workers' Union

## 2007

In 2007 the T&G merged with Amicus to form Unite.

