ABSTRACT
Table 10.1 shows the membership of the NUPB&PW/SOGAT (Division A) over the period 1955 to 1972. Its membership showed an overall slow but steady increase but at points in time a fall in membership was recorded for example in 1957 and 1959. The largest absolute fall in year-on-year membership changes (minus 9,644) occurred in 1971. The 1957 fall was due to loss of women members in part-time employment whilst the decline in the following year resulted from closure of a number of papermills and a fall in employment in the printing and binding trades. Membership peaked in 1970 at 192,920. Membership of the NUPB&PW and SOGAT (Division A), 1955–72
|
Date |
Membership |
|---|---|
|
1955 |
158,813 |
|
1956 |
163,061 |
|
1957 |
160,710 |
|
1958 |
158,065 |
|
1959 |
157,396 |
|
1960 |
166,374 |
|
1961 |
171,064 |
|
1962 |
172,592 |
|
1963 |
177,621 |
|
1964 |
180,665 |
|
1965 |
186,474 |
|
1966 |
not available |
|
1967 |
not available |
|
1968 |
180,262 |
|
1969 |
not available |
|
1970 |
192,920 |
|
1971 |
183,276 |
|
1972 |
183,990 |
