Trade Union entry Metals & Engineering Workers Union (1991 - 1993)

Summary

With links as far back as the mid-nineteenth century in the metal working and engineering industry, the Metals & Engineering Workers' Union came about through the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union and the Association of Draughting Supervisory & Technical Employees in 1991. In 1993 a further amalgamation with the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation of Australia saw the demise of this short-lived union. Its members were amalgamated into the new Automotive Metals & Engineering Union only to become part of the Automotive Food Metals & Engineering Union in 1994 when it merged with the Confectionery Workers' & Food Preservers' Union of Australia.

Related entries

Timeline

 1882 - c. 1896 Friendly Trade Society of Ironmoulders of Queensland
 1916 Federated Shipwrights of Australia
       c. 1882 - c. 1899 Ironfounders Trade Union of Victoria
       c. 1886 - 1899 Friendly Trade Society of Iron Moulders of New South Wales
       c. 1896 - Ironmoulders Trade Union of Queensland
       1916 - 1917 Federated Shipwrights Ship Constructors & Boat Builders Association of Australia
       1938 - 1969 Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section)
             1899 - c. 1914 Federated Iron Brass & Steel Moulders Union of Australasia
             1917 - 1933 Federated Shipwrights Ship Constructors Naval Architects Ships Draughtsmen and Boat Builders of Australia
             1969 - 1973 Amalgamated Engineering Union
                   1916 - 1930 Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australasia
                   1933 - 1976 Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia
                   1973 - 1976 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i)
                         1918 - 1975 Commonwealth Public Service Artisans Association
                         1930 - 1983 Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia
                         1944 - 1981 Association of Architects Engineers Surveyors & Draughtsmen of Australia
                         1976 - 1983 Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union
                               1975 - 1986 Australian Public Service Artisans Association
                               1981 - 1986 Association of Draughting Supervisory & Technical Employees (i)
                               1983 - 1985 Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union
                                     1985 - 1991 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii)
                                     1986 - 1991 Association of Draughting Supervisory & Technical Employees (ii)
                                           1991 - 1993 Metals & Engineering Workers Union
                                                 1993 - 1994 Automotive Metals & Engineering Union
                                                       1994 - 1995 Automotive Food Metals & Engineering Union
                                                             1995 - Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing & Kindred Industries Union

Archival resources

Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland

• From Lunchroom to Boardroom - Records of Oral History Project, Women in the Labor movement, 1930-1970, 1991, UQFL 300; Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland. Details

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Automotive Metals & Engineering Union - Records, 1979 - 1993, Z485; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1959 - 1996, 2001.0038; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Chart 15: Trade Unions - Manufacturing - Metals and Food', in Parties to the Award, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/ptta/036.html. Details