Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers

Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers
Founded 1938
Date dissolved 1987
Merged into Transport and General Workers' Union
Members 2,680 (1980)
Affiliation TUC, GFTU
Key people F. V. Jenkin
Harry Wareham
Office location Peckham
Country United Kingdom

The Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers (AUAW) was a trade union representing workers in the asphalt industry in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1938 with the merger of the National Asphalt Workers' Union and the Northern Asphalt Workers' Union. Although its membership was always small, it covered the entirety of Great Britain and workers involved in all aspects of asphalt, from manufacture to construction workers.[1]

In 1980, the union had 2,680 members.[1] In 1988, it merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union.[2]

General Secretaries

1938: F. V. Jenkin
1960s: Harry M. Wareham
1986: Derek McCann

References

  1. 1 2 Exton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. p. 148.
  2. "The British merger movement", Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.30, No.5
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