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. The new union took the name Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.
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.Peter Barberis et al, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, p.79 The AEEU was also the largest member of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.The IHSM Health and Social Services Year Book 1998/99, p.192
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.James C. Docherty and Sjaak van der Velden, Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor, pp.24-25
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
References
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