Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union

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| name = Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union

| location_country= United Kingdom

| affiliation = TUC, ITGLWF

| members = 19,500 (1983)

| image = File:Amalgamated_Textile_Workers_Union_logo.jpg

| founded = 1 January 1974

| dissolved = 1985

| publication =

| merged = General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union

| headquarters = Textile Union Centre, 5 Caton Street, Rochdale

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The Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union (ATWU) was a trade union in Great Britain.G. P. and S. P. A. Henderson, Directory of British Associations & Associations in Ireland (8th Edition), p.7

History

The union was founded in 1974, when the Amalgamated Weavers' Association merged with the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers."[http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb152-mss.192/atw Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054225/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb152-mss.192/atw |date=2016-03-04 }}", Archives Hub The Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association developed close links with the new union, and the two shared a general secretary.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.4, pp.186-187

In 1983, the important Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union decided to leave the ATWU, and argued that as its largest affiliate, it should be entitled to a proportionate share of the union's funds. The ATWU disagreed, and the dispute went to the High Court of England and Wales, which rejected the Burnley and Nelson union's claim.{{cite book|last1=Honeyball|first1=Simon|title=Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=019963985X|page=345|edition=12}}

With widespread redundancies in the industry, the union lost two-thirds of its members before it merged into the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union in 1985.Gary N. Chalson, Union mergers in hard times: the view from five countries, pp.91-92 Based in Rochdale, the union's final general secretary was Jack Brown.

Affiliates

By 1982, the union had the following affiliates:{{cite book |last1=Marsh |first1=Arthur |title=Trade Union Handbook |date=1984 |publisher=Gower |location=Aldershot |isbn=0566024268 |pages=350–352 |edition=3}}

:Blackburn and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association

:Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers

:Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association

:Burnley, Nelson, Rossendale and District Textile Workers' Union

:Colne and Craven Textile Workers' Association

:Oldham Provincial Union of Textile and Allied Workers

:National Union of Textile and Allied Workers, Rochdale and Districts

:Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union

:North Lancashire and Cumbria Textile Workers' Association

:North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union

:Rochdale and Todmorden District of the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union

:Southern Area