National Communications Union

The National Communications Union (NCU) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

National Communications Union
Founded16 February 1985[1]
PredecessorPost Office Engineering Union
Date dissolvedJanuary 1995[1]
Merged intoCommunication Workers Union
Members155,000 (1990)[2]
AffiliationTUC, Labour
Office locationGreystoke House, 150 Brunswick Road, London
CountryUnited Kingdom

The union was founded in 1985 when the Post Office Engineering Union and the Postal and Telecommunications Group of the Civil and Public Services Association merged. In 1995, it merged with the Union of Communication Workers to form the Communication Workers Union.[3]

General Secretaries
1985: Bryan Stanley
1986: John Golding[4]
1989: Anthony Young[5]

References
  1. John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.6
  2. David Farnham, Employee Relations in Context, p. 269
  3. National Communications Union 1982-95 Archives
  4. "Ex-Labour minister John Golding dies", BBC News, 21 January 1999
  5. CIRCULAR EMP/20/02: Independent Review of the Fire Service


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