National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)

National Union of Mineworkers
Predecessor	Miners' Federation of Great Britain
Founded	January 1945
Headquarters	2 Huddersfield Road, Barnsley
Location	United Kingdom;
Members	423,085 (1946); 750 (2016); 311 (2018); 82 (2023)
Key people	Chris Kitchen (secretary); Nicky Wilson (president);
Affiliations	TUC, Labour Party, NSSN
Website	www.num.org.uk

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union for coal miners in Great Britain, formed in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB). The NUM took part in three national miners' strikes, in 1972, 1974 and 1984–85. Following the 1984–85 strike, and the subsequent closure of most of Britain's coal mines, it became a much smaller union. It had around 170,000 members when Arthur Scargill became leader in 1981,^[6] a figure which had fallen in 2023 to an active membership of 82.^[4]

^ Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p. 77
^ "Form AR21 – National Union of Mineworkers" (PDF). GOV.UK. Trades Union Certification Officer. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
^ "Trade Union's details" (PDF). GOV.UK. Trades Union Certification Officer. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b "NUM". Trades Union Congress. Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
^ "TULO's member unions | Unions Together". Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
^ Michael Crick (4 October 2012). "Scargill's fight to remain in his NUM Barbican flat". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

[1] Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p. 77

[2] "Form AR21 – National Union of Mineworkers" (PDF). GOV.UK. Trades Union Certification Officer. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

[3] "Trade Union's details" (PDF). GOV.UK. Trades Union Certification Officer. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

[Member23-4] "NUM". Trades Union Congress. Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

[5] "TULO's member unions | Unions Together". Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2012.

[6] Michael Crick (4 October 2012). "Scargill's fight to remain in his NUM Barbican flat". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

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