{{Short description|Trade union}} {{About|the trades union in the Republic of Ireland||Communication Workers Union (disambiguation){{!}}Communication Workers Union}} {{Infobox union |name = Communication Workers Union |location = Ireland |affiliations = ICTU |num_members = 19,550<ref>[http://www.ictuni.org/uploads/67b098da-831b-4ef7-ba01-f5111705d2bc/2010%2520Unions%2520Affiliated%2520to%2520Congress.doc Unions Affiliated to Congress 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716201202/http://www.ictuni.org/uploads/67b098da-831b-4ef7-ba01-f5111705d2bc/2010%20Unions%20Affiliated%20to%20Congress.doc |date=2011-07-16 }}, ICTU</ref> |native_name = |image = File:Communication_Workers_Union_Ireland_logo.png |founded = 1922 |dissolved = |merged_into = |headquarters = Dublin, Ireland |key_people = Seán McDonagh, General Secretary |website = {{url|www.cwu.ie}} |footnotes = }}
The '''Communication Workers Union''' is a trade union in Ireland.
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.<ref name="smethurst">{{cite book |first1=John B. |last1=Smethurst |first2=Peter |last2=Carter |title=Historical Directory of Trade Unions |volume=6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldirect0004mars/page/374 374, 456] |isbn=9780754666837 |lccn=80-151653 |date=June 2009 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |location=Farnham |url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldirect0004mars/page/374 }}</ref>
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.<ref name="smethurst" />
==General Secretaries== :1945: Francis Walsh<ref name="devine">{{cite book |last1=Devine |first1=Francis |last2=Smethurst |first2=John B. |title=Historical Directory of Trade Unions in Ireland |date=2017 |publisher=Irish Labour History Society & Working Class Movement Library |location=Dublin |url=https://www.irishlabourhistorysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Historical-Directory-of-Trade-Unions-in-Ireland.pdf |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref> :1946: Seán Mac Bhárd<ref name="devine" /> :1949: Malachy Dooney<ref name="devine" /> :1967: Seamus De Paor<ref name="devine" /> :1990: David Begg :1997: Con Scanlon :2004: Steve Fitzpatrick :2022: Seán McDonagh
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==External links== *[http://www.cwu.ie/ Official website] {{Irish Congress of Trade Unions}} Category:Trade unions affiliated with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Category:Trade unions established in 1922 Category:Trade unions in the Republic of Ireland Category:Communications trade unions Category:1922 establishments in Ireland