Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
The Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (AEEU) is a former British trade union.
The Amalgamated Society of Engineers was founded in 1851. it merged with other unions to form the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) in 1920. In 1968, Mergers took place with the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers in 1968, the Construction Engineering Workers and the Draughtsmen and Allied Technicians Association in 1970, to become the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AEUW). In 1992, it merged with the EETPU to become the Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (AEEU).[1]
People
Presidents
- J. Brownlie 1920
- W. Hutchinson 1930
- J. Little 1933
- Jack Tanner 1939
- R. Openshaw 1954
- W. Carron 1956
- H. Scanlon 1967
- T. Duffy 1978
- William Jordan 1986
- D. Hall 1995-1996[1]
General Secretaries
- T. Mann 1920
- A. Smethurst 1921
- F. Smith 1933
- B. Gardner 1943
- Cecil Hallett 1957
- J. Conway 1964
- Sir J. Boyd 1976
- G. Laird 1982
- P. Gallagher 1994
- Sir Ken Jackson 1996[1]
