Trade union family trees

Amicus family tree

Amicus family tree
Amicus – immediate ancestors

This page shows the origins of the Amicus in the form of a family tree. Click the images to see a larger version, or download the whole document in PDF format using the link here. Amicus family tree – PDF

Family trees are shown for Amicus’s immediate “ancestor” unions, and for constituent bodies including the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, the print unions GPMU and NGA, MSF, UNIFI and the Union of Textile Workers.

In 2007, Amicus and the Transport and General Workers Union merged to form Unite the Union.


Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (part 1)
Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (part 1)

AEEU (part 1) includes: Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers; Amalgamated Engineering Union; Draftsmen and Allied Technicians Association; Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers; National Union of Foundry Workers.

AEEU family tree part 2
Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (part 2)

AEEU (part 2) includes: Steam Engine Makers Society; Amalgamated Society of Engineers; Journeymen Steam Engine, Machine Makers and Millwrights Friendly Society; Amalgamated Association of Brass Founders, Turners, Fitters, Finishers and Coppersmiths; Amalgamated Instrument Makers Society.

AEEU electrical and plumbing family tree
Amalgamated Elecrical and Engineering Union (electrical and plumbing) family tree

AEEU (electrical and plumbing) includes: Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union; United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers; Electrical Trades Union; Amalgamated Society of Telephone and Telegraph Construction Men; Plumbing Trades Union; United Operative Plumbers and Domestic Engineers Association.

GPMU SOGAT family tree
General Print and Media Union / Society of Graphical and Allied Trades

GPMU / SOGAT includes: SOGAT 82; SOGAT 75; National Society of Operative Printers and Media Personnel; Society of Graphical and Allied Trades; National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers; Bookbinders and Machine Workers Consolidated Union; Amalgamated Society of Printers Warehousemen; Operative Printers Assistants Union; Printers Labourers Union.

MSF ASTMS family tree
MSF – Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union

MSF (ASTMS) includes: National Union of Insurance Workers; Association of Scientific, Technical and Administrative Staffs; National Union of Scientific Workers; National Foremen’s Association; Medical Practitioners Union; NationalUnion of Insurance Staffs.

MSF TASS family tree
Manufacturing Science and Finance TASS

MSF (TASS) includes: Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Staffs; National Society of Metal Mechanics; Draughtsmen’s and Allied Technicians Association; National Union of Gold, Silver and Allied Trades; National Union of Sheet Metalworkers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers.

NGA family tree
National Graphical Association

National Graphical Association includes: Amalagamated Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers; Typographical Association; London Typographical Association; Association of Correctors of the Press; London Society of Compositors; National Society of Electrotypers and Stereoypers.

UNIFI family tree
UNIFI – finance unions

UNIFI includes: Banking, Insurance and Finance Union; National Union of Bank Employees; NatWest Bank Staff Association; National Provincial Bank Ladies Guild; Woolwich Independent Staff Association; Barclays Group Staff Union; Martins Bank Staff Association.

Union of Textile Workers family tree
Union of Textile Workers

Union of Textile Workers includes: Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades; National Silk Workers Association; Macclesfield Power Loom Silk Weavers and General Silk Workers Association; Amalagamated Society of Women Workers.