Communication Workers Union (Ireland)

Communication Workers Union
Founded 1922
Members 19,550[1]
Affiliation ICTU
Key people Steve Fitzpatrick, General Secretary
Office location Dublin, Ireland
Country Ireland
Website www.cwu.ie

The Communication Workers Union is a trade union in Ireland.

The union was founded in 1922 as the Irish Post Office Engineering Union, splitting from the British Post Office Engineering Union following the establishment of the Irish Free State. The following year, it merged with the Irish Postal Union and the Irish Postal Workers' Union, forming the United Postal Union, but the IPOEU was unhappy with the arrangements, and so withdrew before the merger was completed, continuing an independent existence.[2]

It was renamed the Communications Union of Ireland in 1985, while in 1989, it was joined by the Postal Telecommunications Workers' Union and adopted its current name.[2]

General Secretaries

1950s: Malachy Dooney
1967: Seamus De Paor
1990: David Begg
1997: Con Scanlon
2004: Steve Fitzpatrick

References

  1. ↑ Unions Affiliated to Congress 2010, ICTU
  2. 1 2 Smethurst, John B.; Carter, Peter (June 2009). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. 6. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 374, 456. ISBN 9780754666837. LCCN 80-151653.
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