The Caribbean historian, trade unionist, lawyer, and politician Richard Hart in his article “The Birth of the Trade Union Movement In The English-Speaking Caribbean Area” records the formation of the Amalgamated Building & Woodworkers Union in 1936, with its members participating in the labour rebellions of 1937 that ushered in the modern trade union movement. According to Hart, the Union was registered by 1938, in addition to the Oilfields Workers Trade Union, the All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union, the Public Works & Public Service Workers’ Trade Union the Seamen & Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union and the Federated Workers’ Trade Union at around the same period.