by an industrial correspondent A new union, 75,000 strong, has been formed by the amalgamation of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Coppersmiths beet oae ribet and the Heating and Domestic Engineers' Union 25,000 members). It has members in the engineering, shipbuilding, chemicals, heating and ventilation industries. Its name is the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths and Heating and Domestic Engineers. After two years of negotiations both unions held ballots in which 19,758 members of the NUSMW & C voted for the amalgamation and 5,152 against, while 9,546 members of the H & DEU voted in favour and 43.012 against. At its first meeting on April 3, the new 29-man executive decided to ask the Confederation of Shipbuilding and #ngineering Unions to recall the meeting of affiliated unions held on March 17. Mr. Kellett, the union's general president, said that they wanted to see the shipbuilding unions take more "positive, militant action" in support of DATA, whose members are suffering a lock out. He said that he would press for this at the recalled meeting.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 7, No. 14, 6 April 1967
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