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{{short description|Former trade union of the United Kingdom}}
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|dissolved    = 1934
|merged       = [[Transport and General Workers' Union]]
|headquarters = 11 South Hill Park, [[Hampstead]]
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The '''Altogether Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers' Society''' was a [[trade union]] representing labourers in the construction industry in the [[United Kingdom]].
The union originated around the turn of 1889 and 1890 as the '''National Association of Builders' Labourers''', and by 1892 had a membership of more than 2,000 workers.  However, it split into local unions in 1893, and ceased to operate nationally.  In 1907, the Hull and District Builders' Labourers Union re-established the National Association, with twenty-five local unions joining, giving a membership of 2,866.<ref name="marsh">Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, ''Historical Directory of British Trade Unions'', vol.3, p.123</ref>
The union affiliated to the [[National Federation of Building Trades Operatives]], which organised a merger conference between it and its three main rivals: the [[United Builders' Labourers Union]], the [[United Order of General Labourers of Great Britain and Ireland]], and the [[Navvies', Bricklayers' Labourers' and General Labourers' Union]].  This was not successful; the Navvies and the United Order had little interest in amalgamation, while the National and the United Builders could not agree on a way forward.  In response, the National Association reformed as the "Altogether Builders' Labourers and Constructional Workers Society".<ref name="marsh" />  It merged into the [[Transport and General Workers' Union]] in 1934.<ref Name="Waddington">{{cite book
|title= The politics of bargaining: the merger process and British trade union structural development, 1892-1987
|last= Waddington
|first= Jeremy
|author-link= Jeremy Waddington
|year= 1995
|publisher= Routledge
|isbn= 0-7201-2245-7
|page= 82
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OCn43fnbZYYC&dq=Altogether+Builders%27+Labourers+and+Constructional+Workers%27+Society&pg=PA82}}</ref>
==General Secretaries==
:1907: Patrick Flanagan
:1921: S. Taylor
:1928: Tom Pugh
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[[Category:Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations]]
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