Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union

The Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) was a British trade union. It merged with the MSF to form Amicus in 2001.

History

The union was founded in 1992, when the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) finally achieved a merger with the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU), after a hundred years of off-and-on discussions.<ref name=Lloyd>Template:Cite book</ref> The new union took the name Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.<ref name=Smethurst>Template:Cite book</ref>

The AEU had been affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, while the EETPU was not, so the merged organisation held a ballot on the question of affiliation; members voted for the new union to affiliate.<ref>Peter Barberis et al, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, p.79</ref> The AEEU was also the largest member of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.<ref>The IHSM Health and Social Services Year Book 1998/99, p.192</ref>

Membership of the new union continued to fall in line with the decline in employment in the sectors it covered. By 2001, its membership had fallen to 728,200. That year, it merged with the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union to form Amicus.<ref>James C. Docherty and Sjaak van der Velden, Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor, pp.24-25</ref>

General Secretaries

1992: Gavin Laird and Paul Gallagher

1994: Paul Gallagher

1995: Ken Jackson

Presidents

1992: Bill Jordan and Ken Jackson

1994: Bill Jordan

1994: John Weakley (acting)

1996: Davey Hall

External links

• Catalogue of the AEEU archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
• Catalogue of further AEEU archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick