{{short description|Former trade union of the United Kingdom}} {{Infobox union | name = Constructional Engineering Union | location = United Kingdom | affiliations = TUC, STUC, NFBTO, Labour | num_members = 5,500<ref>Labour Party, ''Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party'', p.74</ref> | full_name = | native_name = | image = | founded = 1924 | dissolved = 1971 | merged_into = Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers | headquarters = Lower Marsh, London | key_people = George House | footnotes = }}
The '''Constructional Engineering Union''' ('''CEU''') was a trade union representing steel erectors and other workers involved in steel construction in the United Kingdom.
==History== The union was founded in 1924 as a section of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC). It left the ISTC and became an independent union in 1930. In 1971, the union merged with the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, becoming the largely autonomous construction section of the new union.<ref name="directory">{{cite book|last1=Eaton|first1=Jack|last2=Gill|first2=Colin|title=The Trade Union Directory|year=1981|publisher=Pluto Press|location=London|pages=92–95}}</ref>
==Election results== The union sponsored a successful Labour Party candidate in several Parliamentary elections.
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Election !! Constituency !! Candidate !! Votes !! Percentage !! Position |- | 1964 general election || Bothwell || {{sortname|James|Hamilton|James Hamilton (Scottish politician)}} || 27,556 || 60.4 || 1<ref>Labour Party, ''Report of the Sixty-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party'', pp.158-180</ref> |- | 1966 general election || Bothwell || {{sortname|James|Hamilton|James Hamilton (Scottish politician)}} || 27,166 || 61.0 || 1<ref>Labour Party, ''Report of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party'', pp.308-330</ref> |- | 1970 general election || Bothwell || {{sortname|James|Hamilton|James Hamilton (Scottish politician)}} || 26,431 || 54.7 || 1<ref>Labour Party, ''Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party'', pp.289-312</ref> |}
==General Secretaries== :1924: George House :1939: Jack Stanley :1957: Ernie Patterson :1968: Eddie Marsden
==References== <references />
==External links== *[https://mrc.epexio.com/records/CEU Catalogue of the CEU archives], held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Category:Trade unions established in 1924 Category:Trade unions disestablished in 1971 Category:Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom Category:Building and construction trade unions Category:1930 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:Trade unions based in London