Trade Union entry
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Australian Workers Union (ii) (1976 - 1988)AWU |
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| The Australian Workers' Union [AWU] has its origins in the establishment of the Australasian Shearers' Union in Creswick in 1886. Having registered federally in 1905 as the Australian Workers’ Union, it initially sought to serve unskilled rural workers such as shearers and general labourers and eventually grew to be politically influential within the Australian Labor Party. Increasing in size as members from deregistered unions such as the South Australian United Laborers’ Union, the Australian Carriers’ Union and the Australian Gardeners & Nursery Employees’ Union were absorbed into the fold, the AWU postured itself as the ‘One Big Union’ of Australian trade unionism. In 1976 the union was reregistered following an amalgamation with the Wool & Basil Workers’ Federation of Australia. The Union was again reregistered in 1988 when it merged with the Undertakers’ Assistants & Cemetery Employees’ Union. A final amalgamation in 1993 with Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees brought about the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union. See "online sources" for a pedigree chart of this entity. |
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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002 Based on "Parties to the Award" published 1994. Submit any comments, questions, corrections and additions Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 29 June 2006 http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0287b.htm |