Iron and Steel Trades Confederation

Iron and Steel Trades Confederation
Merged intoCommunity
Founded1 January 1917 (1917-01-01)
Dissolved2004
HeadquartersSwinton House, Gray's Inn Road, London[1]
Location
Members
110,000 (1978)[2]
PublicationISTC Banner[1]
AffiliationsTUC, CSEU, Labour, STUC
Websitewww.istc-tu.org

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.

  1. ^ a b c Eaton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. pp. 138–145. ISBN 0861043502.
  2. ^ Yves Mény, The Politics of Steel, p. 323.