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{{Short description|Dutch labour union}}
The '''Industrial Workers' Union NKV''' ({{langx|nl|Industriebond NKV}}) was a [[general union]] in the Netherlands, principally representing manufacturing workers.
The union was founded on 1 January 1972, when the [[Dutch Catholic Union of Employees in Metal, Electronics and Related Companies]] merged with the [[Dutch Catholic Mineworkers' Union]], the [[Dutch Catholic Clothing and Textile Workers' Union]], and the [[Dutch Catholic Factory Workers' Union]].  Like all its predecessors, it affiliated to the [[Dutch Catholic Trade Union Federation]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Industriebond van het Nederlands Katholiek Vakverbond |url=https://www.ru.nl/kdc/bladeren/archieven-thema/subpagina-archieven-thema/stands-vakorganisaties/archieven_van/archieven_i/industriebond/ |website=Radboud University |accessdate=1 November 2020}}</ref>
By 1980, the union had 116,315 members, of whom, 50% worked in the metal industry, 15% in chemicals, 9% in textiles and clothing, 7% in food production, 5% in ceramics and glass, 4% in construction, 2% in paper and printing, 2% in personal services, 1% in mining and quarrying, and 5% in other areas of manufacturing.  The following year, it merged with the rival [[Industrial Workers' Union NVV]], to form the [[Industrial Workers' Union]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Directory of Labor Organizations: Europe |volume=2 |date=1965 |publisher=United States Department of Labor |location=Washington DC |page=20.10&ndash;20.17}}</ref>
==Presidents==
:1972: Piet Brussel
==References==
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[[Category:Catholic trade unions]]
[[Category:General unions]]
[[Category:Trade unions established in 1972]]
[[Category:Trade unions disestablished in 1980]]
[[Category:Trade unions in the Netherlands]]