The General Dutch Industrial Union of the Tobacco Industry (, ANBTI) was a

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representing workers involved in making tobacco products in the Netherlands. A Dutch Cigar Makers' Union was founded in 1871, but it dissolved two years later following an unsuccessful strike. New, local, unions of tobacco workers were established, and on 25 December 1887, they formed the Dutch Cigar Makers' and Tobacco Workers' Union. Originally based in Amsterdam, it relocated its headquarters to Rotterdam in 1894. In 1893, the union was a founding affiliate of the National Labour Secretariat, but it was expelled in 1900, because it would not hand over voluntary strike contributions. In 1906, it was a founder of the

Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions The Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (, NVV) was a Dutch social-democratic trade union. History The NVV was founded in 1906 as a merger of fifteen smaller unions, as a result of the inability of the previous unions to control the radical ele ...

(NVV). Following a major strike in 1913, the union achieved a national wage scheme. From the 1930s, mechanisation led to job loses in the industry. The union campaigned for a law against the use of machinery, attracting the support of small employers who were unable to invest in it, but the campaign was unsuccessful.{{cite web , title=EICHELSHEIM, Henri Johannes Jacobus , url=https://socialhistory.org/bwsa/biografie/eichelsheim , website=BWSA , accessdate=16 October 2020 , archive-date=18 October 2020 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018063524/https://socialhistory.org/bwsa/biografie/eichelsheim , url-status=live In 1953, the NVV rearranged its affiliates as

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s, the union thereafter also organising administrative staff in the industry, and becoming the ANBTI. However, its membership continued declining. By the end of 1968, it had only 2,269 members, and on 1 January 1969, it merged into the General Union of Miscellaneous Industries.

Presidents

:1901: Henri Bruens :1914: Harry Eichelsheim :1931: Willem van der Hoeve? :1940s: T. Beerens :1950s: G. H. Gorter :1960s: G. van Dolder

References

Tobacco industry trade unions Trade unions established in 1887 Trade unions disestablished in 1969 Trade unions in the Netherlands