The Nottingham Hosiery Finishers' Association (NHFA) was a trade union representing workers involved in trimming and putting together hosiery in the Nottingham area of England.
The union was founded in 1921, when the Basford and District Hosiery Trimmers' and Finishers' Society, representing mostly better-paid men in the industry, merged with the Basford and District Bleaching, Dyeing, Scouring and Trimming Auxiliary Trades Association, which represented mostly lower-paid women.
[1] As the largest of many local unions of hosiery finishers, the union played a leading role in the National Federation of Hosiery Dyers and Finishers.
[1] Jack Charlesworth, president of the union from 1934, left in 1942, but was overwhelmingly elected as general secretary in 1947, taking 1,007 votes to his nearest rival's 124.
[2] By the late 1960s, Charlesworth had become concerned that changes in the industry threatened the union's future.