National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association

The National Amalagamated Furnishing Trades Association (NAFTA) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1902 from the merger of the Alliance Cabinet Makers' Association and the United Operative Cabinet and Chairmakers Society of Scotland. In 1911, the Amalgamated Society of Gilders and Amalgamated Society of French Polishers both merged into the new organisation.[1]

In 1946, the union merged with the Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers to form the National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives.[1]

General Secretaries

1902: Harry Ham
1905: Alex Gossip[2]
1941: Alf Tomkins[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union", Working Class Movement Library
  2. 1 2 Victor Leonard Allen, Power in Trade Unions: A Study of Their Organization in Great Britain, p.284
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