Workers' Union

Workers' Union
Merged intoTransport and General Workers' Union
Founded1 May 1898; 126 years ago (1898-05-01)
Dissolved1929; 95 years ago (1929)
HeadquartersHighfield, Golders Green Road, Golders Green
Location
Members
500,000 (1919)
General Secretary
Charles Duncan (last)
PublicationRecord
AffiliationsTUC, Labour

The Workers' Union was a general trade union based in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with small branches overseas. The union was founded on 1 May 1898.During the 1910s, it was the largest general union in the UK, but it went into decline in the 1920s

In 1929 the Workers' Union amalgamated into the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU).