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Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia (1918 - 1993)

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Archives Office of Tasmania
 
[Repository details]
Reference:NS1616
Date Range:1960 - 1993
Description:Tasmanian Branch: Minutes of meetings, 1960-1993 (incomplete run); newspaper cuttings, 1963-1968; branch rules, 1973, 1985; meeting attendance register, 1989-1993.
Quantity:0.6 m
Access:Application for access to be made to repository.
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Mortlock Library of South Australiana, State Library of South Australia
 
[Repository details]
Reference:SRG 730
Date Range:1917 - 1926
Description:Port Adelaide Branch: Minute book.
Quantity:0.06 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915 - 1918)
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 
[Repository details]
Title:Labor Council of New South Wales Oral History Project
Date Range:1986?
Description:Oral history recording
Interviewee: Sid Vaughan
Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy

This recording includes reference to: Vaughan's early involvement with the Operative Painters' & Decorators' Union; working as a union organisor; the Builders' Labourers' Federation; becoming Union Secretary; and the Labor Council of New South Wales.
Formats:Audio Tapes.
Quantity:90 minutes
Access:Written permission from Labor Council of New South Wales required for research and public use
Related Entries:Australian Builders Labourers Federation, BLF (1911 - 1972) | Labor Council of New South Wales (1908 - ) | Vaughan, Sid (1924 - 1990)
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The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
 
[Repository details]
Reference:E190
Date Range:1915 - 1966
Description:Victorian Branches: Minutes; annual reports; correspondence; membership records; financial records; arbitration records; printed material. Also includes Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong sub-branches records such as minutes, correspondence and financial records.
Federal Council: Minutes, annual reports, correspondence, arbitration and financial records.
Quantity:12.75 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915 - 1918)

Reference:E109
Date Range:1890 - 1957
Description:South Australian Branch: Minute books; rule books; reports; correspondence; arbitration papers; minutes of unemployed painters, 1894; minutes of the Federated Building Trades Union, 1894.
Quantity:0.45 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Federated House & Ship Painters Paperhangers & Decorators Employees Association of Australasia (1910 - 1915) | Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915 - 1918)

Reference:Z392(pt)
Date Range:1917 - 1988
Description:Queensland Branch: Minutes of committees and executive; reports of Annual General meetings, 1967-1972; minutes of sub-branch committees and annual reports.
Quantity:1.8 m
Access:Contact repository for details
Related Entries:Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915 - 1918)

Reference:Z291(pt)
Date Range:1977 - 1994
Description:New South Wales Branch: Annual returns.
Quantity:0.45 m
Access:Contact repository for details
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The University of Melbourne Archives
 
[Repository details]
Reference:93/30
Date Range:1993
Description:Federal Office: Single photocopy of the notification received from the Australian Industrial Relations Commission regarding the deregistration of the Operative Painters' and Dockers' Union on its amalgamation with the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia and the Construction Forestry and Mining Employees' Union in March 1993. The resulting union was named the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
Quantity:1 page
Access:Open

Reference:91/146
Date Range:1974 - 1991
Description:Federal Office: Arbitration records, in particular the National Building Trades Construction Award; amalgamation negotiations between Operative Painters' & Dockers' Union and the Plumbers & Gasfitters Employees' Union of Australia, 1990-91 (unsuccessful); subject files; publications.
Quantity:7 m
Access:Restricted

Reference:92/72
Date Range:1930 - 1989
Description:New South Wales Branch: Minutes, 1950s-1980s; arbitration files; subject files; membership records.
Quantity:65 cartons & 35 archive boxes
Access:Open

Reference:88/114
Date Range:1987 - 1988
Description:Victorian Branch: Photocopies of minutes and correspondence leading up to the election; election pamphlets, posters and stickers promoting new office bearers; posters lobbying union members to vote for amalgamation with Plumbers' & Gasfitters' Union. Copy of Recorder dedicated to Eight Hours Day (May 1988).
Quantity:0.02 m
Access:Restricted

Reference:88/123
Date Range:1988
Description:Victorian Branch: Agenda of the October 1988 Federal Conference; includes correspondence detailing the Commission's decision regarding National Building Trades Construction Awards.
Quantity:0.01 m
Access:Restricted

Reference:90/61
Date Range:1988
Description:Victorian Branch:Blank survey forms (four copies); Filled returns from ACT members (eight copies)
Quantity:0.01 m
Access:Restricted

Reference:73/52
Date Range:1886 - 1972
Description:Victorian Branch: Minutes, 1886-1937; correspondence, 1919-1967; membership records, 1909-1940s, 1941; Apprenticeship Commission papers, 1905-1969; Housing Commission papers, 1954-1964; Wage claim and industrial files; accounts.
Ballarat & Geelong Sub-branch: Management material; amalgamations campaign; legal material; rule books, 1910-1971; registration, 1910-1939; early material; photographs; accounts, 1902-1910; Federal Council minutes, 1912-1972; Federal Executive minutes, 1912-1969.
Formats:Photographs.
Quantity:9.1 m
Access:Open
Related Entries:Federated House & Ship Painters Paperhangers & Decorators Employees Association of Australasia (1910 - 1915) | Melbourne Operative Painters & Paperhangers Society (1895 - ) | Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915 - 1918) | Painters Paperhangers & Decorators Society of Victoria (c. 1908 - 1910) | United Society of Painters Paperhangers & Decorators (1886 - 1895)

Reference:19/129
Description:South Australian Branch: One side of a banner, paint on canvas, 'painted by members', (no date). It is believed that the Museum of Victoria holds the other side of this banner. The banner held by University of Melbourne Archives was deaccessioned to Museum Victoria in 1998.
Quantity:1 banner, 3.9 x 3.6 m.
Access:Open
Related Entries:Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915 - 1918)

Reference:83/152
Date Range:1874 - 1981
Description:New South Wales Branch: Minutes, 1874-1957; West Maitland Sub-Branch minutes, 1909-1913; Golburn Sub-Branch, 1916-1956; printed and general material including transcript of the Two Grades of Painters Inquiry, 1903; material relating to the Builders Workers Accident Pay Strike, 1871; NSW Trades and Labor Council statement, 1980, 1981; newspaper clippings; photographs including Operative Painters & Dockers' Union, New South Wales State Committee, 1937, 1939, union members, 1908.
Quantity:13 boxes
Access:Restricted
Related Entries:Federated House & Ship Painters Paperhangers & Decorators Employees Association of Australasia (1910 - 1915) | Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915 - 1918) | Sydney Trade Society of Painters | Sydney Trade Union of Painters | Sydney United Trade & Benefit Society of Painters (c. 1892 - )
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002
Based on "Parties to the Award" published 1994.
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Updated: 29 June 2006
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