The Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation was a

trade union federation Organizers within trade unions have sought to increase the bargaining power of workers in regards to collective bargaining by acting in collaboration with other trade unions. Multi-union organizing can take place on an informal basis, or on a ...

in northern England.

History

The federation was founded in 2009. By 2011, it brought together unions representing 126,700 members. Despite its name, it only included unions representing workers in the cotton industry; the wool industry and textile finishing were instead covered by the National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade.Edwin Hopwood, ''A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association'', pp.75-76 Another similar organisation, the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, devoted itself to political work, and two of its members (the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives and the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners) never joined the federation.Lynden Briscoe, ''The Textile and Clothing Industries of the United Kingdom'' By 1960, the federation's members were: * Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine) * Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Protection Society * Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association * Amalgamated Weavers' Association * General Union of Loom Overlookers * Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Society * Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' Association

General Secretaries

:1906: Tom Shaw :1919: Luke Bates :1943: Andrew Naesmith :1953: Lewis Wright :1968: Harry Kershaw :c.1970: Arthur Howcroft :1971: Fred Hague :1980s: Harry Haworth

References

{{Lancashire cotton National trade union centres of the United Kingdom Trade unions established in 1906 1906 establishments in the United Kingdom Cotton industry trade unions