The Irish Bakers' National Amalgamated Union was a trade union in Ireland. The union was founded in 1889 as the Irish National Federal Union of Bakers by twenty-one local unions, and its membership soon reached 1,000. Heavy recruitment at the start of the twentieth century increased this to 3,000,Arthur Ivor Marsh and Victoria Ryan, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Vol. 5'', p.171 this meaning that it was the largest member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in 1901.''Historical Studies in Industrial Relations'', No.21-24, p.44 However, a lock-out in Dublin harmed the union, and by 1910 membership was barely a tenth of its peak. In 1918, the union was renamed as the Irish Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers Amalgamated Union, and membership recovered to 2,000, then 5,000 by the 1950s. In 1977, the union merged with the British-based Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union.

Secretaries

:1900s: Robert Wilson :1920s:

Denis Cullen Denis Cullen (19 August 1886 – 26 November 1971) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official. A baker by trade, during the 1910s he emerged as a leading figure in the Dublin branch of the Irish Bakers' National Amalgamated ...

:1942: John Swift :1967: James Young

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Bakers' and confectioners' trade unions Defunct trade unions of Ireland 1889 establishments in Ireland Trade unions established in 1889 Trade unions disestablished in 1977 1977 disestablishments in Ireland