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    Chart 23: Trade Unions - Transport - Road and Air
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From
1987
Functions
Trade Union (Federal)
Website
http://www.twu.com.au
Reference No
179V

Summary

The growth in the transport sector at the turn of the last century provided a stimulus for carters' unions to reorganise themselves to make them a stronger force. This led to the Federal registration of the Federated Carters and Drivers' Industrial Union in 1906. However it was not until 1925, that representatives of the Federated Carters' & Drivers' Industrial Union, the Trolley Draymen & Carters' Union and the Motor Transport & Chauffeurs' Association met to plan the establishment of a new union capable of representing all persons employed in connection with the transport of people or goods by road. This led to the Amalgamated Road Transport Workers' Union becoming federally registered in 1928. Ten years later it changed its name to the Transport Workers' Union [TWU] of Australia. In 1947 members of the deregistered Federated Carters' and Drivers' Industrial Union of Australia joined the ranks of the TWU. By the end of 1987 the Transport Workers' Union had amalgamated with the Motor Transport & Chauffeurs' Association and although having to reregister it retained the same name.

Archival resources

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

  • Transport Workers Union of Australia - Records, 1929 - 1990, T33; Z269; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Bowden, Bradley, Driving Force: The History of the Transport Workers' Union of Australia 1883-1992, Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards, New South Wales, 1993, 248 pp. Details
  • Bray, Mark and Rimmer, Malcolm, Delivering the goods: A History of the Transport Workers' Union in New South Wales 1888-1986, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1987, 297 pp. Details
  • Kellett, John, A Fighting Union: A History of the Queensland branch of the Transport Workers' Union, 1907-2000, Boolarong Press, Queensland, 2001, 264 pp. Details
  • Transport Workers Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch, Proud to be a TWU Member: Transport Workers Tell Their Stories, Transport Workers Union, Cammeray, New South Wales, 1999, 27 pp. Details

Theses

  • Bowden, Bradley, 'The Origins and History of the Transport Workers Union of Australia 1883-1975', PhD thesis, Department of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, 1991. Details

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Digital resources

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Bruce A. Smith