title: List of Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations
text: # 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.
  
  