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 Template:Sortname 9,760 42.0 2[6]
Manchester Gorton Template:Sortname 13,047 67.4 1[6]
Pontypool Template:Sortname 8,348 38.8 1[6]
Rotherham Template:Sortname 9,757 38.1 2[6]
1922 general election Bilston Template:Sortname 10,392 45.8 2[7]
Manchester Gorton Template:Sortname 15,058 53.6 1[7]
Pontypool Template:Sortname 11,198 40.6 1[7]
Rotherham Template:Sortname 16,449 49.0 2[7]
Walsall Template:Sortname 8,946 23.6 3[7]
1923 general election Bilston Template:Sortname 9,085 37.1 2[8]
Cleveland Template:Sortname 9,683 27.8 3[8]
Pontypool Template:Sortname 13,770 50.6 1[8]
1924 general election Bilston Template:Sortname 14,583 53.2 1[9]
Birmingham King's Norton Template:Sortname 10,497 43.3 1[9]
Pontypool Template:Sortname 15,378 52.6 1[9]
1929 general election Bilston Template:Sortname 18,679 50.8 1[10]
Birmingham King's Norton Template:Sortname 13,973 40.6 2[10]
Eccles Template:Sortname 20,489 49.8 1[10]
Newport Template:Sortname 18,653 39.5 1[10]
Pontypool Template:Sortname 17,805 51.5 1[10]
1931 general election Bilston Template:Sortname 16,847 44.9 2[11]
Eccles Template:Sortname 16,101 38.2 2[11]
Newport Template:Sortname 19,238 40.9 2[11]
Pontypool Template:Sortname 18,981 56.3 1[11]
1935 general election Bilston Template:Sortname 17,820 48.8 2[12]
Motherwell Template:Sortname 14,755 50.7 1[12]
1940 by-election Swansea East Template:Sortname unopposed N/A 1
1945 general election Bolton Template:Sortname 44,595 24.0 1[13]
Swansea East Template:Sortname 19,127 75.8 1[13]
1950 general election Rotherham Template:Sortname 31,211 64.4 1[14]
Swansea East Template:Sortname 32,680 75.3 1[14]
1951 general election Rotherham Template:Sortname 31,124 65.6 1[15]
Swansea East Template:Sortname 32,790 73.6 1[15]
1955 general election Rotherham Template:Sortname 27,423 63.3 1[16]
Swansea East Template:Sortname 28,198 72.4 1[16]
1959 general election Rotherham Template:Sortname 28,298 62.8 1[17]
Swansea East Template:Sortname 29,884 67.5 1[17]
1964 general election Neath Template:Sortname 29,692 73.4 1[18]
1966 general election Neath Template:Sortname 31,183 79.9 1[19]
1968 by-election Sheffield Brightside Template:Sortname 14,179 55.2 1[19]
1970 general election Neath Template:Sortname 28,378 71.4 1[20]
Sheffield Brightside Template:Sortname 23,941 72.2 1[20]
Feb 1974 general election Halesowen and Stourbridge Template:Sortname 22,465 33.8 2[21]
Neath Template:Sortname 25,351 62.3 1[21]
Sheffield Brightside Template:Sortname 27,363 68.4 1[21]
Oct 1974 general election Halesowen and Stourbridge Template:Sortname 23,637 37.6 2[22]
Neath Template:Sortname 25,028 61.4 1[22]
1979 general election Kettering Template:Sortname 31,579 45.0 1[21]
Neath Template:Sortname 27,071 64.5 1[21]
1983 general election Corby Template:Sortname 17,659 36.1 2[21]
Neath Template:Sortname 22,670 53.6 1
1987 general election Enfield North Template:Sortname 14,743 28.5 2
Neath Template:Sortname 27,612 63.4 1
Newport West Template:Sortname 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: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named eaton
  2. ↑ Men of Steel, Iron Steel Trades Confederation, p. 245.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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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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