Iron and Steel Trades Confederation

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The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC) was a British trade union for metal-workers and allied groups, being the largest union in these fields.[1] It was formed on 1 January 1917 as a merger of existing steel-workers' unions and it is now part of Community.

History

In 1917 Minister of Labour, John Hodge passed the Trade Unions' Amalgamation Act, which simplified the process whereby Trade Unions merged, amalgamated or federated. This was in response to both the difficulty of mergers under the previous legislation (requiring two-thirds majorities in favor in all participant unions), as well as a desire to push craft unions into general trade unions to cover entire industries.[2] However, difficulties still remained. When the first three members federated in 1917,[3] they were legally prevented from accepting any new members. The ISTC focused on industrial negotiations, and new members joined its subsidiary, the British Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Association (BISAKTA); formally, unions which federated after 1917 joined this association.[4]

Trade unions that have amalgamated with or transferred engagements to the ISTC or BISAKTA and year it occurred:

The resultant union was named the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. Members of the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers of Great Britain and of the Tin and Sheet Millmens' Association voted against joining the union, but were later reballoted and voted in favour.[1] The Wire Workers Union joined the confederation in 1922 but left in 1924, rejoining in 1991. Other members left in 1924 to form the Constructional Engineering Union.[4]

From the 1980s, employment in the metalworking trades was in sharp decline, and membership of the ISTC dropped in line with this.[1] In 1984, the existing ISTC was legally absorbed by BISAKTA, which took on the ISTC name.[4]

In later years the union also built up representation amongst workers in the electronics industry, plastics and glass, the manufacture of kitchen furniture, carpet production, and call centres. Expansion was especially strong in areas with major steel industry installations.

Responding to the contraction of the British manufacturing sector, the ISTC expanded into new areas in 2000. Both the NLBD and PLCWTWU pre-dating the ISTC having been formed as a trade union in 1899 and 1866 respectively.[5]

In 2004, the ISTC merged with the National Union of Knitwear, Footwear & Apparel Trades (KFAT) to form a new organisation called Community.

Election results

The union sponsored Labour Party candidates in each Parliamentary election.

Election Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage Position
1918 general election Kidderminster Script error: No such module "Sort". 9,760 42.0 2[6]
Manchester Gorton Script error: No such module "Sort". 13,047 67.4 1[6]
Pontypool Script error: No such module "Sort". 8,348 38.8 1[6]
Rotherham Script error: No such module "Sort". 9,757 38.1 2[6]
1922 general election Bilston Script error: No such module "Sort". 10,392 45.8 2[7]
Manchester Gorton Script error: No such module "Sort". 15,058 53.6 1[7]
Pontypool Script error: No such module "Sort". 11,198 40.6 1[7]
Rotherham Script error: No such module "Sort". 16,449 49.0 2[7]
Walsall Script error: No such module "Sort". 8,946 23.6 3[7]
1923 general election Bilston Script error: No such module "Sort". 9,085 37.1 2[8]
Cleveland Script error: No such module "Sort". 9,683 27.8 3[8]
Pontypool Script error: No such module "Sort". 13,770 50.6 1[8]
1924 general election Bilston Script error: No such module "Sort". 14,583 53.2 1[9]
Birmingham King's Norton Script error: No such module "Sort". 10,497 43.3 1[9]
Pontypool Script error: No such module "Sort". 15,378 52.6 1[9]
1929 general election Bilston Script error: No such module "Sort". 18,679 50.8 1[10]
Birmingham King's Norton Script error: No such module "Sort". 13,973 40.6 2[10]
Eccles Script error: No such module "Sort". 20,489 49.8 1[10]
Newport Script error: No such module "Sort". 18,653 39.5 1[10]
Pontypool Script error: No such module "Sort". 17,805 51.5 1[10]
1931 general election Bilston Script error: No such module "Sort". 16,847 44.9 2[11]
Eccles Script error: No such module "Sort". 16,101 38.2 2[11]
Newport Script error: No such module "Sort". 19,238 40.9 2[11]
Pontypool Script error: No such module "Sort". 18,981 56.3 1[11]
1935 general election Bilston Script error: No such module "Sort". 17,820 48.8 2[12]
Motherwell Script error: No such module "Sort". 14,755 50.7 1[12]
1940 by-election Swansea East Script error: No such module "Sort". unopposed N/A 1
1945 general election Bolton Script error: No such module "Sort". 44,595 24.0 1[13]
Swansea East Script error: No such module "Sort". 19,127 75.8 1[13]
1950 general election Rotherham Script error: No such module "Sort". 31,211 64.4 1[14]
Swansea East Script error: No such module "Sort". 32,680 75.3 1[14]
1951 general election Rotherham Script error: No such module "Sort". 31,124 65.6 1[15]
Swansea East Script error: No such module "Sort". 32,790 73.6 1[15]
1955 general election Rotherham Script error: No such module "Sort". 27,423 63.3 1[16]
Swansea East Script error: No such module "Sort". 28,198 72.4 1[16]
1959 general election Rotherham Script error: No such module "Sort". 28,298 62.8 1[17]
Swansea East Script error: No such module "Sort". 29,884 67.5 1[17]
1964 general election Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 29,692 73.4 1[18]
1966 general election Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 31,183 79.9 1[19]
1968 by-election Sheffield Brightside Script error: No such module "Sort". 14,179 55.2 1[19]
1970 general election Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 28,378 71.4 1[20]
Sheffield Brightside Script error: No such module "Sort". 23,941 72.2 1[20]
Feb 1974 general election Halesowen and Stourbridge Script error: No such module "Sort". 22,465 33.8 2[21]
Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 25,351 62.3 1[21]
Sheffield Brightside Script error: No such module "Sort". 27,363 68.4 1[21]
Oct 1974 general election Halesowen and Stourbridge Script error: No such module "Sort". 23,637 37.6 2[22]
Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 25,028 61.4 1[22]
1979 general election Kettering Script error: No such module "Sort". 31,579 45.0 1[21]
Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 27,071 64.5 1[21]
1983 general election Corby Script error: No such module "Sort". 17,659 36.1 2[21]
Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 22,670 53.6 1
1987 general election Enfield North Script error: No such module "Sort". 14,743 28.5 2
Neath Script error: No such module "Sort". 27,612 63.4 1
Newport West Script error: No such module "Sort". 20,887 46.1 1

General Secretaries

1917: Arthur Pugh
1936: John Brown
1946: Lincoln Evans
1953: Harry Douglass
1967: Dai Davies
1975: Bill Sirs
1985: Roy Evans
1993: Keith Brookman
1999: Michael J. Leahy

Assistant General Secretaries

1935: John Brown
1936: Lincoln Evans
1945: Harry Douglass
1953: Dai Davies
1967: Jim Diamond
1973: Bill Sirs
1975: Roy Evans
1985: Keith Brookman
1993: Michael J. Leahy
1999: Eddie Lynch
2004: Roy Rickhuss

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References

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  1. ↑ a b c Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
  2. ↑ Men of Steel, Iron Steel Trades Confederation, p. 245.
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ a b c University of Warwick Modern Records Centre, "Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), the British Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Association (BISAKTA) and predecessors, (1865)-2004".
  5. ↑ The Carpet Weavers of Kidderminster. Arthur MarshMalthouse Press Oxford, p. 74.
  6. ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ a b c d e Labour Party, Report of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 255–272. Note that this list is of the sanctioned candidates as of June 1922, and there were some changes between this date and the general election.
  8. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  9. ↑ a b c Labour Party, Annual Report of the Labour Party Conference (1928), pp. 275–281. Note that this is a list of affiliations of Labour MPs as of September 1928, and it is possible that some MPs held different sponsorship as of the 1924 election.
  10. ↑ a b c d e Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  13. ↑ a b Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 232–248.
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  15. ↑ a b Labour Party, Report of the Fiftieth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 184–203.
  16. ↑ a b Labour Party, Report of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 255–275.
  17. ↑ a b Labour Party, Report of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 179–201.
  18. ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 158–180.
  19. ↑ a b Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 308–330.
  20. ↑ a b Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 289–312.
  21. ↑ a b c d e f Labour Party, Report of the Seventy-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 371–390.
  22. ↑ a b Labour Party, Report of the Seventy-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp. 391–411.

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