title: Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers
text: # Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers
  
  The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers (AUFW) was a trade union representing workers in foundries in the United Kingdom.
  
  The union was founded in 1946 with the merger of the National Union of Foundry Workers, the Ironfounding Workers' Association and the United Metal Founders' Society. In 1962, the North of England Brass, Aluminium, Bronze and Kindred Alloys Moulders' Trade and Friendly Society merged into the AUF, and the Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries Trades Union joined in 1967. Later that year, the union merged with the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers, acting as the foundry section of the new union. At this point, the union had around 72,000 members.
  
  ## Election results
  
  The union sponsored Roland Casasola as a Labour Party candidate in two Parliamentary elections.
  
  | Election | Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Position |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1950 general election | Manchester Moss Side | Roland Casasola | 16,769 | 37.5 | 2 |
  | 1951 general election | Blackburn West | Roland Casasola | 16,996 | 46.3 | 2 |
  
  ## Leadership
  
  ### General Secretaries
  
      1946: Jim Gardner
      1958: Tommy Graham
      1960: David Lambert
  
  ### Presidents
  
      1946: Bill Wallace
      1947: Archibald MacDougall
      1954: Roland Casasola
      1958: Fred Hollingsworth
  
  ### Assistant General Secretaries
  
      1946: Tom Colvin
      1958: Tommy Graham
      1958: David Lambert
      1960:
  