Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers

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The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers (AUFW) was a trade union representing workers in foundries in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1946 with the merger of the National Union of Foundry Workers, the Ironfounding Workers' Association and the United Metal Founders' Society. In 1962, the North of England Brass, Aluminium, Bronze and Kindred Alloys Moulders' Trade and Friendly Society merged into the AUF, and the Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries Trades Union joined in 1967. Later that year, the union merged with the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers, acting as the foundry section of the new union.Archives Hub, "Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers " At this point, the union had around 72,000 members.James C. Docherty and Sjaak van der Velden, Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor, p.24

Election results The union sponsored Roland Casasola as a Labour Party candidate in two Parliamentary elections.David Howell, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.IV, pp.52-55

Election Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage Position 1950 general election Manchester Moss Side 16,769 37.5 2 1951 general election Blackburn West 16,996 46.3 2

Leadership General Secretaries 1946: Jim Gardner 1958: Tommy Graham 1960: David Lambert

Presidents 1946: Bill Wallace 1947: Archibald MacDougall 1954: Roland Casasola 1958: Fred Hollingsworth

Assistant General Secretaries 1946: Tom Colvin 1958: Tommy Graham 1958: David Lambert 1960:

Further reading Hubert Jim Fyrth and Henry Collins, The Foundry Workers: a trade union history

References

External links Catalogue of the AUFW archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick