Membership fell below 2,000 before gradually increasing, rising above 5,000 by 1910, and to around 7,500 by 1923.

[1] In 1949, the union again changed its name, to the lengthy Scottish Union of Bakers, Confectioners, Biscuit Bakers and Bakery Workers, shortening this in 1955 to the "Scottish Union of Bakers and Allied Workers".

[1] Membership of the union peaked in 1971 at 11,713 but fell below 9,000 as the decade progressed.

As a result, it decided to merge into the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1978.

[1] The union sponsored Norman Hogg, its national organiser, as a Labour Party candidate in a Parliamentary election.