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National Association of Licensed House Managers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ104870307 ↗
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The National Association of Licensed house Managers (NALHM) was a trade union representing publicans in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1970, in response to a growing trend of breweries purchasing public houses and then employing managers to run them. It affiliated to the General Federation of Trade Unions and to the Trades Union Congress, and by 1996 had 7,109 members. In 1997, it merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Association of Licensed House Managers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.