National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers

NUSMWCHDE
National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers
Merged into	Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section
Founded	1920
Dissolved	1983
Headquarters	75/77 West Heath Road, London
Location	United Kingdom, Ireland;
Members	74,550 (1980)
Publication	The Journal
Affiliations	TUC, CSEU, LMTU, Labour

The National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers was a trade union in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

History

The union was founded in July 1920 as the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers with the merger of a number of unions, including the General Union of Tinplate Workers and the National Amalgamated Association of Tin Plate Workers of Great Britain, and fifteen local unions.^[2] It merged with the competing National Society of Coppersmiths, Braziers and Metal Workers in 1959, renaming itself the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Coppersmiths. Following its 1967 merger with the Heating and Domestic Engineers' Union, it took its final, lengthy name.^[3]

The last independent union for sheet metal workers, the Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers' Society, finally merged into the union in 1973.^[4]

The union approved an offer to join the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' Engineering Section in 1979,^[1] but this did not go ahead and instead, in 1983, it merged into the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section.^[3]

The union sponsored a Labour Party candidate in the 1979 general election:^[5]

Constituency	Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Position
Hendon North	Frank Arthur Cooper	14,374	36.0	2

1922: Charles Hickin

1960: Ted Roberts

^ ^a ^b Eaton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN 0861043502.
^ Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.2, p.120
^ ^a ^b Papers of National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers 1921-1987, University of Warwick
^ Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.2, pp.105, 117-118
^ Labour Party, Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.406-431