The National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers (NSES) was a trade union representing workers in print foundries in the United Kingdom.
[1] That year, the Assistants voted against merging into the National Society, and instead decided to dissolve their union, and encourage its members to join a new Electrotypers and Stereotypers section of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA).
The Federated Society took advantage of the situation by renaming itself as the Federated Society of Electrotypers, Stereotypers and Assistants, and by the end of 1915, it had more than 1,800 members, including more than 1,000 in London.
[2] By the mid-1920s, membership had risen to 3,400, growing to a peak of more than 5,000 by the early 1960s.
The idea was not taken up until many years later, but on 30 October 1967, the union merged into the National Graphical Association.