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.