Engineering and Fastener Trade Union

EFTU

Full name	Engineering and Fastener Trade Union
Founded	1914
Date dissolved	2004
Members	4000 (1977)
Affiliation	Trade Union Congress
Country	United Kingdom

The Engineering and Fastener Trade Union was a trade union based in the West Midlands of England.

History

The union was founded in 1914 as the Screw Nut Bolt and Rivet Trade Union. It represented workers who used machinery to make screws, nuts, bolts and rivets. As the handmade section of the industry declined, it gained members from the National Amalgamated Society of Nut and Bolt Makers. Its membership remained just below 2,000 from the mid-1920s to 1956, when it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.^[1] By 1977, membership was estimated at 4,000.^[2] In 1989, the union changed its name to the "Engineering and Fastener Trade Union". By the mid-1990s, membership was down to 240, all of whom worked at GKN.^[1] The union was dissolved in 2004.^[3]

References

1. Smethurst, John B.; Carter, Peter (2009). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. 6. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 244–245. ISBN 978-0-7546-6683-7.
2. Marsh, Arthur Ivor (1991). Trade union handbook: a guide and directory to the structure, membership, policy, and personnel of British trade unions. Gower Publishing. p. 85.
3. A Snapshot of Trade Union Events, Chelmsford TUC