Records of National Union of Sheet Metal Workers & Coppersmiths: Glasgow Branch, trade union, Glasgow, Scotland

• Committee minutes 1934-1962
• Screening committee minutes 1954-1962

The National Union of Sheet Metal Workers & Coppersmiths: Glasgow Branch, was founded in Glasgow, Scotland, in c1934  as the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers & Braziers: Glasgow Branch. As well as acting as a collective voice for the Braziers and Sheet Metal Workers of Glasgow in disputes and discussions concerning issues such as pay, working conditions and industrial action, the Union also provided illness and unemployment benefit to workers, pensions, helped with funeral expenses and provided loans to its members. Prior to 1934, the Scottish Sheet Metal Workers’ & Braziers’ Friendly & Protective Society had undertaken this role and when the society became affiliated to the National Union and changed its name c1934 , its finances were placed into a Trust managed by the new branch of the Union. In 1934, the branch held a march through Glasgow to protest at the governments Unemployment Insurance Bill.

A committee consisting of a president, treasurer, money steward and secretary managed the branch. The committee met monthly and then later weekly to discuss relevant issues concerning its members and administration, and these meeting were held in Burnbank Gardens, Glasgow.

From at least 1954 , a screening committee was convened to which potential members of the branch had to apply.

By 1962, the Union had changed its name to the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers & Coppersmiths. In the 1980s  , this Union merged with the Technical Administrative & Supervisory Staffs union (TASS) which in turn amalgamated with the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) in January 1988 to form the Manufacturing, Science & Finance union (MSF).

This material is arranged into series, which consist of numbers of items related by format and/or function. Within series, the items are generally arranged chronologically

Open

Deposit : 1994 : ACCN 1999/4

Manual file level list available in searchroom

Further information can be found via the Glasgow Caledonian University Archives homepage at http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/archives/index.htm

No known copies

Applications for permission to quote should be sent to the University Archivist

Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use & condition of documents

This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 1847 procedures

Transferred to Union of Manufacturing, Science & Finance, Glasgow

None expected

GB 1847 STUC Records of the Scottish Trades Union Congress

GB 1847 STUC 2001/4 Records of Glasgow District Trades Council

GB 0246 S38 Records of Glasgow Trades Council (Glasgow City Archives)

GB 0152 MSS 79/AS, MS 144 Records of Manufacturing, Science & Finance Union (Warwick University: Modern Records Centre)

The Manufacturing, Science & Finance union also absorbed the following unions whose records are held within Glasgow Caledonian University Archives:

GB 1847 STUC 1999-4b Records of Draughtsmen & Allied Technical Association: Glasgow South West Branch

GB 1847 STUC 1999-4c Records of Draughtsmen & Allied Technical Association: Paisley & Renfrew Branch

For contact details of all repositories with a GB code, see the ARCHON repository search page available at http://www.hmc.gov.uk/archon/archon.htm

No known publications using this material

This material is original

No alterations made to date