Communication Workers Union (Ireland)

This article is about the trades union in the Republic of Ireland. For other uses, see Communication Workers Union.

The Communication Workers Union is a trade union in Ireland.

Communication Workers Union

Founded	1922
Headquarters	Dublin, Ireland
Location	Ireland
Members	19,550[1]
Key people	Seán McDonagh, General Secretary
Affiliations	ICTU
Website	www.cwu.ie

The union was founded in 1922 as the Irish Post Office Engineering Union, splitting from the British Post Office Engineering Union following the establishment of the Irish Free State. The following year, it merged with the Irish Postal Union and the Irish Postal Workers' Union, forming the United Postal Union, but the IPOEU was unhappy with the arrangements, and so withdrew before the merger was completed, continuing an independent existence.^[2]

It was renamed the Communications Union of Ireland in 1985, while in 1989, it was joined by the Postal Telecommunications Workers' Union and adopted its current name.^[2]

General Secretaries

1950s: Malachy Dooney

1967: Seamus De Paor

1990: David Begg

1997: Con Scanlon

2004: Steve Fitzpatrick

2022: Seán McDonagh

References

1. Unions Affiliated to Congress 2010 Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, ICTU
2. Smethurst, John B.; Carter, Peter (June 2009). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 6. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 374, 456. ISBN 9780754666837. LCCN 80-151653.

External links

• Official website