Catalogue Number
NMLH.2014.20.29
Object Name
Badge
Place
Stockport
Description
The National Association of Builders' Labourers was founded in 1889/90. It then reputedly broke up, 16 of its constituent branches reforming into independent smaller unions. In 1907 the Hull and District Builders' Labourers Union reformed the union, uniting 25 unions. Hull remained the base for union operations. In 1920 the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives called a meeting with the National Association of Builders' Labourers, the United Builders' Labourers Union, The United Order of General Labourers of Great Britain and Ireland and the Navvies, Bricklayers Labourers and General Labourers Union with the intention of amalgamating with those unions. The Navvies' Union and the United Order withdrew their support of this aim, leaving only the National Association and the United Builders unions to become a joint organisation. The amalgamation of the two remaining unions never came to fruition due bad feeling and mutual accusations between the two unions. As a result both
unions decided to form new independent organisations: the National Association of Builders' Labourers became the Altogether Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers Society; the United Builders' Labourers Union became the National Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers' Society. The Altogether Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers' Society merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1934.
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