The Nottinghamshire Miners' Association was a trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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The union was founded in 1881 to represent coal miners in Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

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During the UK General Strike of 1926

UK General Strike of 1926

The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted nine days, from 4 May 1926 to 13 May 1926. It was called by the general council of the Trades Union Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening...

, General Secretary George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer was a former miner and a councillor on Nottinghamshire County Council from Stapleford, later Labour MP from 1918-29 for Broxtowe.-Family life:...

 negotiated a return to work for some members, against the wishes of the union, and he was expelled. He founded the Nottinghamshire Miners' Industrial Union, a split supported by most of the mine owners. The two organisations reunited in 1937, as the Nottinghamshire Miners' Federated Union.

In 1945, the union became the Nottinghamshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers. During the 1984-1985 miners' strike

UK miners' strike (1984–1985)

The UK miners' strike was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trades union movement...

, the majority of the members broke away to form the Union of Democratic Mineworkers

Union of Democratic Mineworkers

The Union of Democratic Mineworkers is a British trade union not recognised by the TUC or the Labour party for coal miners, which is based in Nottinghamshire, England...

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Presidents

1881: Joseph Allen

1883: Joseph Hopkin

1884: Charles West

1888: Aaron Stewart

1897: W. Hardy

1899: John E. Whyatt

1907: Charles Bunfield

1909: William Carter

William Carter (Mansfield politician)

William Carter was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, but was defeated at the 1922 general election by the Liberal Party candidate, Albert Bennett. He did not stand for Parliament...

1910: John E. Whyatt

1912: George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer was a former miner and a councillor on Nottinghamshire County Council from Stapleford, later Labour MP from 1918-29 for Broxtowe.-Family life:...

1918: Frank Varley

Frank Varley

Frank Bradley Varley was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1923 general election as Member of Parliament for Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, and held the seat until his death in 1929, aged 43...

1930: Val Coleman

1932: Bernard Taylor

Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield

Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield, CBE, JP was a British coalminer and politician who was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for 25 years.-Mining:...

1937: George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer was a former miner and a councillor on Nottinghamshire County Council from Stapleford, later Labour MP from 1918-29 for Broxtowe.-Family life:...

1945: Bill Bayliss

Len Clarke

1982: Ray Chadburn

Keith Stanley

General Secretaries

1881: W. Kay

1884: Aaron Stewart

1887: William Bailey

1893: John George Hancock

1897: Aaron Stewart

1910: Charles Bunfield

1914:

1918: George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer

George Alfred Spencer was a former miner and a councillor on Nottinghamshire County Council from Stapleford, later Labour MP from 1918-29 for Broxtowe.-Family life:...

1926: William Carter

William Carter (Mansfield politician)

William Carter was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, but was defeated at the 1922 general election by the Liberal Party candidate, Albert Bennett. He did not stand for Parliament...

1932: Val Coleman

Len Martin

1981: Henry Richardson