ABSTRACT
COMMUNICATIONS UNION OF IRELAND Founded in 1922 as Irish Post Office Engineering Union having previously been in British union; registered 1983, 577T; affiliated to ITUC/ICTU, 1950; became Communications Union of Ireland, 1985; amalgamated with Postal, Telecommunications Workers’ Union to form Communications Workers’ Union, 1989. In June 1923, the IPOEU stayed out of the merger that created the Post Office Workers’ Union but by 1930 had only 17 members who steadfastly refused to join the POWU. In 1946, agreement was reached to transfer engineering grades from the POWU to IPOEU and the union grew: 1950, 1,000; 1960, 1,500; 1970, 3,500. It affiliated to ITUC/ICTU from 1946 and PTTI in 1951.
