Selected Events in Trade Union History
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Selected Events in Trade Union History
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Victorian Metal Trades Dispute (1946 - 1947) |
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| Industrial Dispute | |
| Location: Victoria | |
| Engineer's strike covering all unions involved in the metal trade. Seeking a reduction in working hours, and an increase in wages, which had been frozen throughout the period of the Second World War. The six-month dispute, involves overtime bans, a lockout by metal trade employers and a full-scale strike by the Amalgamated Engineering Union with support from other unions, was eventually resolved when the Arbitration Court gave a decision favourable to the unions. |
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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/ALE1516b.htm |