The union was founded in 1834 in London as the Friendly Society of Operative Tobacconists. Two years later, it expanded its membership to include tobacco cutters, dryers and stovers and was renamed the United Tobacconists Society. In 1851, it expanded again to include cigarette makers, and in 1881 it took another name, the United Operative Tobacconists throughout the Kingdom.[2] For much of this period, the union was based in Liverpool at the houses of its successive general secretaries, but in 1918 it relocated to London.[3]
In 1925, the association became an industrial union, admitting all workers in the tobacco industry, including women, and adopted its final name.[2] However, the following year, it was disaffiliated from the Trades Union Congress after other unions complained that it was poaching their members. It rejoined only in 1941.[4] In 1946, the union merged with the rival National Cigar and Tobacco Workers' Union.[3]
tobacco, workers, union, union, based, united, states, tobacco, workers, international, union, belgian, trade, union, belgium, trade, union, representing, workers, areas, tobacco, industry, united, kingdom, merged, intotechnical, administrative, supervisory, s. For the union based in the United States see Tobacco Workers International Union For the Belgian trade union see Tobacco Workers Union Belgium The Tobacco Workers Union TWU was a trade union representing workers in all areas of the tobacco industry in the United Kingdom Tobacco Workers UnionMerged intoTechnical Administrative and Supervisory SectionFounded1834Dissolved1986HeadquartersCity Road LondonLocationUnited KingdomMembers20 630 1980 PublicationTobacco Worker 1 AffiliationsTrade Union Congress Contents 1 History 2 Election results 3 General secretaries 4 References 5 External linksHistory editThe union was founded in 1834 in London as the Friendly Society of Operative Tobacconists Two years later it expanded its membership to include tobacco cutters dryers and stovers and was renamed the United Tobacconists Society In 1851 it expanded again to include cigarette makers and in 1881 it took another name the United Operative Tobacconists throughout the Kingdom 2 For much of this period the union was based in Liverpool at the houses of its successive general secretaries but in 1918 it relocated to London 3 In 1925 the association became an industrial union admitting all workers in the tobacco industry including women and adopted its final name 2 However the following year it was disaffiliated from the Trades Union Congress after other unions complained that it was poaching their members It rejoined only in 1941 4 In 1946 the union merged with the rival National Cigar and Tobacco Workers Union 3 In 1986 the union merged into Technical Administrative and Supervisory Section forming the union s new Tobacco Sector 4 Election results editThe union sponsored its Liverpool district organiser as a Labour Party candidate in the 1959 general election 5 6 Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage PositionMiddleton and Prestwich Fred Barton 21 248 40 4 2General secretaries edit1834 Robert Stevens 1910s E Kayler 1924 C W Dorrell 1925 Andrew Boyd 1941 Percy Belcher 1964 David Burke 1967 Charles Butler 1969 Doug GrieveReferences edit Marsh Arthur 1984 Trade Union Handbook 3 ed Aldershot Gower pp 355 356 ISBN 0566024268 a b Eaton Jack Gill Colin 1981 The Trade Union Directory London Pluto Press pp 216 217 a b Tobacco Workers Union The Tobacco Workers Union 1834 1984 a b University of Warwick Tobacco Workers Union Labour Party Report of the Fifty Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party pp 179 201 Fred Barton Manchester Guardian 18 December 1963External links editCatalogue of the TWU archives held at the Modern Records Centre University of Warwick Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tobacco Workers 27 Union amp oldid 1072318311, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
