The National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers was a trade union in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
History The union was founded in July 1920 as the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers with the merger of a number of unions, including the General Union of Tinplate Workers and the National Amalgamated Association of Tin Plate Workers of Great Britain, and fifteen local unions.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.2, p.120 It merged with the competing National Society of Coppersmiths, Braziers and Metal Workers in 1959, renaming itself the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Coppersmiths. Following its 1967 merger with the Heating and Domestic Engineers' Union, it took its final, lengthy name.Papers of National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers 1921-1987, University of Warwick
The last independent union for sheet metal workers, the Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers' Society, finally merged into the union in 1973.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.2, pp.105, 117-118
The union approved an offer to join the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' Engineering Section in 1979, but this did not go ahead and instead, in 1983, it merged into the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section.
Election results The union sponsored a Labour Party candidate in the 1979 general election:Labour Party, Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.406-431
Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage Position Hendon North 14,374 36.0 2
General Secretaries 1920: Charles Gordon 1922: Charles Hickin 1941: Archibald Kidd 1943: Harry Brotherton 1960: Ted Roberts 1962: Les Buck 1977: George Guy
References
External links Catalogue of the NUSMWCHDE archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Catalogue of the NUSMWCHDE London District archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Catalogue of the NUSMWB archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick