Electrical and plumbing unions - Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (EETPU)
A brief history
1865 - United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland was formed
1889 - Electrical Trades union was formed from a conference between the Amalgamated Society of Telegraph and Telephone Construction Men and the Union of Electrical Operatives
1911- United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland changed name to United Operative Plumbers and Domestic Engineers Association of Great Britain and Ireland
1931 - United Operative Plumbers and Domestic Engineers Association of Great Britain and Ireland changed name to Plumber, Glaziers and Domestic Engineers Union
1946 - Plumber, Glaziers and Domestic Engineers Union changed name to Plumbing Trades union
1968 - Plumbing Trades Union and Electrical Trades Union merged to form the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (EETPU)
1992 - Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union merged with the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU).
2001 - AEEU merged with the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union to form Amicus.
2007 - Amicus merged with the Transport and General Workers Union to form Unite.
Unite still exists today, click here to visit their Website
Electrical and plumbing unions archives in our collection
Electrical Trades Union (TU/ELEC)
- Annual reports, 1922-1962 (not complete)
- Minutes of the Executive Council and Sub-Executive Committee, 1912-1993 (not complete)
- Conference reports, 1940-1985
- Rule books
- Other papers - Electrical Supply Industry Joint Industrial Council minute books
- Branch records including Darlington, Littlehampton, Maryport, Middlesborough, Newferry, Newport, Nottingham North, Peckham, Runcorn on Widnes, Stoke on Trent and Worthing.
Plumbing Trades Union (TU/PLUMB)
- Annual reports and quarterly returns, 1867-1960 (not complete)
- Minutes of the National Executive Council, 1920-1965
- Conference reports, 1923-1968
- Rules Revision Committee reports, 1951-1963
- Circulars, 1919-1968
- Other papers including a letter book and proposition forms
- Branch records including Bacup, Blackpool, Preston, Ramsbottom, Haslingden and Rawtenstall and Rossendale.
Sources about electrical and plumbing unions in the Library
Electrical Trades Union, Souvenir of fifty years of the Electrical Trades Union, 1889-1939, Express Co-operative Printing (Manchester) 1939
Gordon Schaffer, Light and liberty - sixty years of the Electrical Trades Union, Electrical Trades Union (Bromley, Kent) 1949
Electrical Trades Union, The story of the E.T.U. - the official history of the Electrical Trades Union, Electrical Trades Union (Bromley, Kent) 1952
John Byrne, Frank Chapple, CH Rolph, All those in favour - an account of the High Court action against the Electrical Trades Union and its officers for ballot-rigging in the election of union officials, (Byrne & Chapple v Foulkes & others, 1961, Deutsch (London) 1962
Electrical Trades Union, Electrical Trades Union journal
Electrical Trades Union, Electron journal
J O French, Plumbers in unity - history of the Plumbing Trades Union, 1865-1965, Plumbing Trades Union (London) 1965
Plumbing Trades Union, Plumbing Trades Union journal
Other records are held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick:
Electrical Trades Union (GB 0152 MSS.387)
Plumbing Trades Union (GB 0152 MSS.134)
Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (GB 0152 MSS.387)
Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (GB 0152 MSS.259/AEEU)