National Graphical Association

{{Infobox union

| name = National Graphical Association

| location_country= United Kingdom

| affiliation = TUC, P&KTF, Labour Party

| members = 136,300 (1982)

| full_name =

| image = NGA82 logo.jpg

| founded = 1964

| dissolved = 1991

| merged = Graphical, Paper and Media Union

| headquarters = Graphic House, Bromham Road, Bedford{{cite book|last1=Eaton|first1=Jack|last2=Gill|first2=Colin|title=The Trade Union Directory|date=1981|publisher=Pluto Press|location=London|isbn=0861043502|pages=160–164}}

| publication = Print

| key_people = Robert Willis, Tony Dubbins

| footnotes =

}}

The National Graphical Association (NGA) was a trade union representing typographers and related workers in the United Kingdom.

History

The union was formed in 1964 by the merger of two long-term rival unions, the Typographical Association and the London Typographical Society. It was joined by a large number of small craft print unions including the National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers, National Union of Press Telegraphists, Association of Correctors of the Press, Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers. Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers and Engravers (SLADE) and National Union of Wallcoverings and Allied Trades. By 1982 it had a membership of 136,300.Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions.

In 1978 the General Secretary Joe Wade asserted in a letter to the Sunday Times that "recruitment through secondary boycott has been a legitimate trade union tactic for many years."Quoted in 'Report of an Inquiry into Certain Trade Union Recruitment Activities', Cmnd. 7706 (1979) (Leggatt Report), page 16.

The NGA merged with the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades in 1991 to form the Graphical, Paper and Media Union.

Election results

The union sponsored several Parliamentary candidates, many of whom won election.

class="wikitable sortable" ! Election !! Constituency !! Candidate !! Votes !! Percentage !! Position
1964 general election	Bristol South	{{sortname\|William\|Wilkins\|William Wilkins (British politician)}}	26,569	63.5	1
rowspan=2 \| 1966 general election	Billericay	{{sortname\|Eric\|Moonman}}	40,013	46.5	1
Bristol South	{{sortname\|William\|Wilkins\|William Wilkins (British politician)}}	26,552	67.1	1
1970 general election	Billericay	{{sortname\|Eric\|Moonman}}	43,765	47.8	2
Feb 1974 general election	Basildon	{{sortname\|Eric\|Moonman}}	33,499	45.2	1
Oct 1974 general election	Basildon	{{sortname\|Eric\|Moonman}}	32,298	47.9	1
1979 general election	Basildon	{{sortname\|Eric\|Moonman}}	32,739	40.5	2
1983 general election	Colchester North	{{sortname\|Ray\|Allen\|nolink=1}}	10,397	18.4	3{{cite book \|last1=Gennard \|first1=John \|title=A History of the National Graphical Association \|date=1990 \|publisher=Unwin Hyman \|isbn=0044458118}}
1987 general election	Clackmannan	{{sortname\|Martin\|O'Neill\|Martin O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Clackmannan}}	20,317	53.7	1