Northumberland Miners' Association

Northumberland Miners' Association
DissolvedNational Union of Mineworkers
Founded1864
Dissolved2018
Location
Members
32,327 (1907[1])
Parent organization
MNU (1864–1898)
MFGB (1907–1944)
NUM (1945–2018)
AffiliationsMiners' Federation of Great Britain
Burt Hall in Newcastle, former headquarters of the Northumberland Miners' Association.

The Northumberland Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1864 to represent coal miners in Northumberland, following the collapse of a short-lived union covering both Northumberland and Durham miners. Originally named the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association, it aimed for respectability, requiring high subscriptions and avoiding strikes.[2] It did not affiliate to the national body, the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, until 1907. In 1945, this became the National Union of Mineworkers, and the association became its Northumberland Area. This was dissolved in 2018.[3]

  1. ^ Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. p. 82-101.
  2. ^ Roy A. Church and Quentin Outram, Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966, p. 103
  3. ^ "Former trade unions". Trade Union Certification Officer. Retrieved 21 December 2020.