The Communication Workers Union is a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

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. 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 Irish Free State (6 December 192229 December 1937), also known by its Irish-language, Irish name ( , ), was a State (polity), state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. The treaty ended the three-ye ...

. 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. 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.

General Secretaries

:1945: Francis Walsh :1946: Seán Mac Bhárd :1949: Malachy Dooney :1967: Seamus De Paor :1990: David Begg :1997: Con Scanlon :2004: Steve Fitzpatrick :2022: Seán McDonagh

References

External links

Official website
{{Irish Congress of Trade Unions Trade unions established in 1922 Trade unions in the Republic of Ireland Communications trade unions 1922 establishments in Ireland