Make UK, formerly the Engineering Employers' Federation, represents manufacturers in the United Kingdom.
The original purpose of the EEF was to enable "collective action to protect individual firms and local associations, the preservation of the 'power to manage', and the maintenance of industrial peace through established procedure".
[1][2] Through offices in London and Brussels, Make UK provides political representation on behalf of UK business in the engineering, manufacturing and technology-based sectors: lobbying government, MPs, regional development agencies, MEPs and European institutions.
[2] The EEF functioned as a 'Union' of Employers and negotiated from this stance with trade unions, for instance "twice, in 1897-8[3] and 1922, the Federation organised nationwide lock-outs.
[5] The EEF archive is curated by Warwick University's Modern Records Centre.