Catalogue description Engineering Employers' West Midlands Association

This record is held by Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

Details of MSS.265
Reference: MSS.265
Title: Engineering Employers' West Midlands Association
Description:

Local agreement files, printed national agreements and material relating to Engineering Employers' Federation and Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions' national claims and the 1979 Engineers' Strike belonging to EEWMA, 1961-1988; records of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and District Engineering Trades Employers' Association, 1897-1969 (MSS.265/B); the Shropshire Employers' Federation and the Shropshire Association of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation, 1917-1950 (MSS.265/S); the Midland Employers' Federation and the National Employers' Federation, 1911-1918 (MSS.265/M); and the Iron Trades Employers' Association, 1883-1889 (MSS.265/I).
Date: 1883-1988
Arrangement:

The archive does contain some records of the EEWMA, but these are unlisted. The bulk of the archive comprises the records of its predecessor organisations. These collections thus form part of MSS.265 and are accompanied by their own collection-level descriptions.

 

This archive has been catalogued to file level (with the exception of EEWMA's records)
Related material:

The Centre also holds the records of the Coventry and District Engineering Employers' Association (MSS.66), the Engineering Employers' East Midlands Association and its constituent associations (MSS.288), and the Engineering Employers' Federation (MSS.237).
Held by: Warwick University: Modern Records Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 0.259 cu. m.
Access conditions:

There are no restrictions on access to these papers.
Immediate source of acquisition:

The material in this collection was deposited by the Engineering Employers' West Midlands Association between 1985 and 1995.
Selection and destruction information:

The collection has been weeded for duplicates.
Accruals:

Further deposits are not expected.
Subjects:
  • Labour relations
  • Associations
Unpublished finding aids:

Authority files exist for the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and District Engineering Trades Employers' Association (GBR 0152 AAR1543); the Birmingham and District Engineering Employers' Association (GBR 0152 AAR1544); the Engineering Employers' West Midlands Association (GBR 0152 AAR1545); the Engineering Employers' Federation (GBR 0152 AAR1522); the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation, Shropshire Association (GBR 0152 AAR1546); the Coventry and District Engineering Employers' Association (GBR 0152 AAR1547); the Iron Trades Employers' Association (GBR 0152 AAR1548); the Midland Employers' Federation (GBR 0152 AAR1549); the National Employers' Federation (GBR 0152 AAR1550); the Shropshire Employers' Federation (GBR 0152 AAR1569); and the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (GBR 0152 1376).
Administrative / biographical background:

Originally formed in 1897 as the local association of the Engineering Employers' Federation for Birmingham, Wolverhampton and district. Similar associations were to exist in the West Midlands region for Coventry, North Staffordshire and Shropshire. The Birmingham Association subsequently shed and then reacquired responsibility for EEF member firms in Wolverhampton and became known simply as the Birmingham and District Engineering Employers' Association. In 1962-3 the Shropshire local association was absorbed by Birmingham. The Birmingham and District Association was renamed the Engineering Employers' West Midlands Association (EEWMA) between February 1963 and February 1964. The Coventry and District Engineering Employers' Association was merged with the West Midlands Association in 1984. The West Midlands Association now forms the largest of the EEF's thirteen regional Associations, with over 1200 companies in its membership.
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