Early Trade Unions - Grand National

Question 1

When was the Grand National formed?

Answer 1

1834

Question 2

How many members did it attract?

Answer 2

500,000 in the first week and 1 million overall.

Question 3

Why did the Grand National have large ST impact?

Answer 3

Forced the government to introduce legislation to overcome the Trade union, meant workers couldn’t be part of one (The Document)

Question 4

How many members paid fees and what was the impact?

Answer 4

Only 16,000 of 1 million paid fees, lack of funding meant they couldn’t run internally.

Question 5

What was their fundamental goal?

Answer 5

Support strikers, couldn’t be achieved due to lack of funding.

Question 6

Example of failure of Grand National.

Answer 6

1834 - 1500 mill workers from Derby out of work for 4 months as they had joined union, couldn’t survive as weren’t getting paid.

Question 7

What was the role of The Document?

Answer 7

Prohibited workers from joining a Trade Union - not sustainable for strikers.

Question 8

When did the Grand National collapse?

Answer 8

1835

Question 9

Judgement of Grand National - Failure

Answer 9

Popular support but couldn’t sustain their union due to lack of funding and the Document undermining their work.