Amicus (trade union)

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Amicus

Predecessor	MSF and AEEU
Merged into	Unite
Founded	January 2001
Dissolved	1 May 2007
Headquarters	London, England
Location	United Kingdom & Ireland
Members	1.2 million
Affiliations	TUC, ICTU, STUC

Amicus was a trade union in Great Britain and Ireland, primarily representing workers in the private sector union. The union was established in January 2002 by the merger of Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union and the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union. Amicus was enlarged by the amalgamation of two unions, UNIFI in 2004 and the Graphical, Paper and Media Union in 2005.

Amicus was affiliated to the Trades Union Congress of England and Wales, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

On 1 May 2007, Amicus voted to merge with the Transport and General Workers' Union to form Unite the Union, which became the biggest trade union in the UK at the time. It retained that status until late 2018, when it was overtaken in membership numbers by Unison.^[1]