Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers

Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers
Founded 1946
Date dissolved 31 December 1967
Merged into Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers
Members 72,000 (1967)
Affiliation TUC, ITUC, CSEU, Labour
Office location 164 Chorlton Road, Manchester
Country United Kingdom

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.[1] At this point, the union had around 72,000 members.[2]

Election results

The union sponsored Roland Casasola as a Labour Party candidate in two Parliamentary elections.[3]

ElectionConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
1950 general electionManchester Moss SideRoland Casasola16,76937.52
1951 general electionBlackburn WestRoland Casasola16,99646.32

General Secretaries

1946: Jim Gardner
1958: Tommy Graham
1960: David Lambert

Further reading

Hubert Jim Fyrth and Henry Collins, The Foundry Workers: a trade union history

References

  1. ↑ Archives Hub, "Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers"
  2. ↑ James C. Docherty and Sjaak van der Velden, Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor, p.24
  3. ↑ David Howell, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.IV, pp.52-55
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