The National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks (NAUSAWC, often known as the Shop Assistants' Union) was a trade union representing retail workers in the United Kingdom.
Based in Manchester, it was originally named the National Union of Shop Assistants, and the following year, 1893 it became the National Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks.
[1] During this period, it relocated its headquarters to London, merged in 1898 with the United Shop Assistants Union, and adopted its final name.
[2] It built up a branch in Dublin, but this left in 1921 to merge with the Irish Drapers' Assistants Association, forming the Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks.
[2] Notable figures associated with the union include assistant general secretary Margaret Bondfield, and president James Seddon.