Constructional_Engineering_Union Knowpia

Constructional Engineering Union
Merged into	Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
Founded	1924
Dissolved	1971
Headquarters	Lower Marsh, London
Location	United Kingdom;
Members	5,500
Key people	George House
Affiliations	TUC, STUC, NFBTO, Labour

The Constructional Engineering Union (CEU) was a trade union representing steel erectors and other workers involved in steel construction in the United Kingdom.

History edit

The union was founded in 1924 as a section of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC). It left the ISTC and became an independent union in 1930. In 1971, the union merged with the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, becoming the largely autonomous construction section of the new union.^[2]

Election results edit

The union sponsored a successful Labour Party candidate in several Parliamentary elections.

Election	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Position
1964 general election	Bothwell	James Hamilton	27,556	60.4	1^[3]
1966 general election	Bothwell	James Hamilton	27,166	61.0	1^[4]
1970 general election	Bothwell	James Hamilton	26,431	54.7	1^[5]

General Secretaries edit

1924: George House

1939: Jack Stanley

1957: Ernie Patterson

1968: Eddie Marsden

References edit

^ Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.74
^ Eaton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. pp. 92–95.
^ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.158-180
^ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.308-330
^ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.289-312