Catalogue description The North East Coast Engineering Trades Employers Association

EM.EN1/1/1-12 Minute Books

1915 - 1917, 1935 - 1970

(12 volumes)

EM.EN1/2/1-128 Circular Letters

1890 - 1970

(128 volumes)

[See also EM.EN2; the Border Counties Engineering Employers Association, EM.EN3: Northern Counties Joint Standing Committee, EM.EN4: Association of Employers of Shipbuilding and Engineering Labour on the River Tyne, EM.SH2: The Shipbuilders Employers Federation, JE.IF: The Board of Conciliation for the Iron Founding Industry of the North East Coast]

The North East Coast Engineering Trades Employers Association

Sunderland, Newcastle and Tees and Hartlepool Engineering Associations

Associations of Employers of Shipbuilding Labour on the River Tyne

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• Industry
• Manual workers
• Skilled workers

The Association came into existence after the amalgamation of the Sunderland, Newcastle and Tees and Hartlepool Engineering Associations, which had all emerged during the 1870's, largely as a result of the Engineers Strike of 1871.

The Newcastle Association was originally known as the Association of Employers of Shipbuilding Labour on the River Tyne. [Minute books for this Association can be found at EM/EN4]

The volumes of circular letters of the North East Coast Engineering trades Employers Association indicate that it was preceded by the Tyneside Branch of the Iron Trades Employers Association. It would appear that the association became known as the NECETEA in 1896, after the dissolution of the Iron Trades Employers Association, during that year. The earlier minute books have not survived.

The North East Coast Engineering Trades Employers Association, together with the Border Counties Engineering Employers Association, eventually came to form the North of England Engineering Employers Association, which in turn, is one of the sixteen associations forming the Engineering Employers Federation.

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