Electrical and plumbing unions The Electrical Trades Union 1889-1968 Founded in 1889 with the merger of Union of Electrical Operatives, London based, and the Amalgamated Society of Telegraph & Telephone Construction workers based in Manchester.
Many of the Scottish members left in 1872 to form the rival United Operative Plumbers Association of Scotland. In 1911 the Union was renamed the United Operative Plumbers & Domestic Engineers Association of GB & Ireland. The Plumbing Trades Union amalgamated with the Electrical Trades Union in 1968 to form the Electrical Electronic Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU).
The Plumbing Trades Union The Union was founded in 1865 when the Manchester Plumbers Society and Liverpool Plumbers merged with a number of small organisations across Scotland, Ireland and some English regions to form the United Operative Plumbers Association of GB & Ireland.
In 1931 the Scottish Union rejoined the National body which became the Plumbers, Glaziers & Domestic Engineers Union.
Electrical Electronic Telecommunications and Plumbing Union The union represented skilled and unskilled workers and in 1971 it set up a white-collar section, the Electrical and Engineering Staff Association to recruit workers in the industry where it already had non manual members.
In 1946 the union changed its name to the Plumbing Trades Union.
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