§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister of Labour if he will list in the Official Report all the mergers and amalgamations of trade unions which have taken place since 1st January 1964, and the aproximate number of union members involved in each case.
§ Mr. HattersleyThe information available up to 1st January 1968 is as follows:
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Year Union Membership Transferred to Membership 1966 Associated Society of Moulders and Foundry Workers. 250 Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers of Great British and Ireland. 69,581 National Society of Journeymen Curries and Leather Workers. 103 National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. 72,950 Scottish Plasterers Union 3,960 National Association of Operative Plasterers. 12,478 National Society of Street Masons, Paviors and Road Makers. 1,037 Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers of Great Britain and Ireland. 76,260 Heywood Card and Blowing Loom and Ring Frame Operatives Association. * Rochdale Male and Female Card and Blowing Room and Spinners Association. 6,390 1967 London Schoolkeepers' Association 757 Greater London Council Staff Association. 10,628 H.M. Stationery Office Machinery Repair Staff Association. 104 National Union of General and Municipal Workers. 792,995 Variety Artistes' Federation 2,263 British Actors' Equity 14,206 Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Coal Trimmers Union. 84 Transport and General Workers Union. 1,465,662 National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers. 4,451 National Graphical Association 86,438 Wool Yarn and Warehouse Workers Union. 182 National Union of General and Municipal Workers. 792,995 Oldham and District Co-operative Packers Association. * Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room and Ring Frame Operatives Association. 11,117 Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries. * Amalgamated Union of Foundry Worker of Great Britain and Ireland. 66,481
B. AMALGAMATIONS Year Unions Membership Forming 1964 National Federation of Insurance Workers. 37,335 National Union of Insurance Workers. National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers. 2,033 1966 National union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers. 186,474 Society of Graphical and Allied Traders. National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants. 47,535 1967 Manchester Hydraulic Packers Society 150 Manchester Warehouse Employees Association. Manchester Warehouse Employees Association (Piece Goods). 396 South East Lancashire Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives Association. 1,961 South East Lancashire and Cheshire Textile Operatives Association. Hyde and District Card Blowing and Ring Frame Room Operatives Association. 810 Stockport Cardroom Operatives and Ring Spinners Association. * Heating and Domestic Engineers' Union Incorporating Ventilating Engineers and General Metal Workers. 25,532 National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers. National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Coppersmiths. 50,082 Amalgamated Engineering Union 1,137,324 Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers. Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers of Great Britain and Ireland. 66,481 * Unregistered unions. Membership of unregistered unions is not published. Note: Membership figures quoted are those obtaining at the end of the preceding year.