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The Scottish Seafishers' Union was a
trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...
representing fishermen in Scotland. The union was founded in 1899 as the Aberdeen Steam Fishing Vessels Enginemen's and Firemen's Union. It had 200 members by the end of the year, but this declined to only 60 in 1903, when Joseph Forbes Duncan was appointed as general secretary. Within the year, he had increased membership to 360, and from 1905 began opening branches around Scotland. As a result, the union's named was changed to the Scottish Steam Fishing Vessels' Enginemen and Firemen's Union. The union undertook strikes in 1905 and 1907, both against the wishes of Duncan, who felt that they had achieved little. He briefly left the union to work full-time for the
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, but found the role lonely, and returned to the union again in 1908. In 1924, the union decided to begin admitting cooks and deckhands, and accordingly it changed its name to the Scottish Seafishers' Union. In 1937, it merged into the
Transport and General Workers' Union The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general union, general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland—where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU)—with 900 ...
in 1937, becoming its Scottish Sea Fishermen's Section.


General Secretaries

:1899: R. H. Craig :1903: Joseph Forbes Duncan


See also

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TGWU amalgamations The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was created in 1922 from a merger of fourteen unions and continued to grow through a series of mergers, amalgamations and transfers of engagements. This process, which is recorded below in chronolog ...


References

*Arthur Ivor Marsh, Victoria Ryan. ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Volume 5'' Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Jan 1, 2006 pg. 435 Defunct trade unions of Scotland Fishing industry trade unions Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations Trade unions established in 1899 Trade unions disestablished in 1937 1899 establishments in Scotland 1937 disestablishments in Scotland {{UK-trade-union-stub