Flint Glass Makers' Sick and Friendly Society

[1] This union was bankrupted by an unsuccessful strike at the Five Ways Flint Glass Works in 1848, and it was therefore reorganised as the FGMFS at a meeting in Manchester the following year.

[4] The FGMFS was the richest union of its day, and was able to pay pensions and ill health benefits to its members.

[6] In 1899, the union was renamed as the National Flint Glass Makers' Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

[7] A group of members in Leeds left in 1903 to form the rival National Glass Bottle Makers' Society.

[8] The remaining union against changed its name in 1935, becoming the National Flint Glass Makers' Friendly Society of Great Britain and Ireland.