Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers

The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers (AUFW) was a trade union representing workers in foundries in the United Kingdom.

Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers

Merged into	Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers
Founded	1946
Dissolved	31 December 1967
Headquarters	164 Chorlton Road, Manchester
Location	United Kingdom
Members	72,000 (1967)
Affiliations	TUC, ITUC, CSEU, Labour

The union was founded in 1946 with the merger of the National Union of Foundry Workers, the Ironfounding Workers' Association and the United Metal Founders' Society. In 1962, the North of England Brass, Aluminium, Bronze and Kindred Alloys Moulders' Trade and Friendly Society merged into the AUF, and the Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries Trades Union joined in 1967. Later that year, the union merged with the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers, acting as the foundry section of the new union.^[1] At this point, the union had around 72,000 members.^[2]

Election results

The union sponsored Roland Casasola as a Labour Party candidate in two Parliamentary elections.^[3]

Election	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Position
1950 general election	Manchester Moss Side	Roland Casasola	16,769	37.5	2
1951 general election	Blackburn West	Roland Casasola	16,996	46.3	2

Leadership

General Secretaries

1946: Jim Gardner^[4]

1958: Tommy Graham

1960: David Lambert

Presidents

1946: Bill Wallace^[4]

1947: Archibald MacDougall^[4]

1954: Roland Casasola

1958: Fred Hollingsworth

Assistant General Secretaries

1946: Tom Colvin^[4]

1958: Tommy Graham

1958: David Lambert

1960:

Further reading

Hubert Jim Fyrth and Henry Collins, The Foundry Workers: a trade union history