The Engineers (continued)
United Machine Workers Association
(UMWA)
With its beginnings in Manchester in 1844 the
United Machine Workers Association (UMWA) was a rival of the ASE
and had a membership which often shared the same workplace. The
Association had 3,800 members in 54 branches in 1900 and had grown
to a membership of 14,000 by 1915. The UMWA was one of the founding
members of the AEU in 1920.
Amalgamated Instrument Makers Society
(AIMS)
The Amalgamated Instrument Makers Society
(AIMS) founded in 1887 was one of those unions invited by the ASE
in 1918 to merge with that union and others to form one engineering
union. However the AIMS refused at that time and it wasn’t until
1920 that the union changed its mind and became a part of the AEU
when it amalgamated with the nine other unions to form that
organisation.
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