National Graphical Association

The National Graphical Association (NGA) was a trade union representing typographers and related workers in the United Kingdom.

It was joined by a large number of small craft print unions including the National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers, National Union of Press Telegraphists, Association of Correctors of the Press, Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers.

Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers and Engravers (SLADE) and National Union of Wallcoverings and Allied Trades.

[2] In 1978 the General Secretary Joe Wade asserted in a letter to the Sunday Times that "recruitment through secondary boycott has been a legitimate trade union tactic for many years.

[2] The union sponsored several Parliamentary candidates, many of whom won election.