Trade Union entry Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union (1976 - 1983)

Summary

Formed by the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union and the Federated Shipwrights' & Ship Constructors' Association of Australia in 1976, the Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union functioned until 1983 when it joined the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights' Union. It reverted to the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union in 1985 before a round of amalgamations saw its name change again, this time to the Metals and Engineering Workers Union (1991), the Automotive Metals & Engineering Union (1993), and finally the Automotive Food Metals & Engineering Union in 1994.

Related entries

Timeline

 1916 Federated Shipwrights of Australia
       1916 - 1917 Federated Shipwrights Ship Constructors & Boat Builders Association of Australia
       1938 - 1969 Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section)
             1917 - 1933 Federated Shipwrights Ship Constructors Naval Architects Ships Draughtsmen and Boat Builders of Australia
             1969 - 1973 Amalgamated Engineering Union
                   1933 - 1976 Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia
                   1973 - 1976 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i)
                         1976 - 1983 Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union
                               1983 - 1985 Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union
                                     1985 - 1991 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (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

Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle

• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union - Arbitration and Conciliation, Awards and Agreements, 1928 - 1983, A6660-A6662; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union - Maritime Services Board Files, 1980 - 1985, A6664; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union - Printed Material, 1979 - 1988, A6666; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union - Records, 1972 - 1986, A6657; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union - Records, 1972 - 1984, A6665; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union - Shipwrights' Association Records, 1966 - 1985, A6663; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details

Broken Hill City Library, Outback Archives

• Amalgamated Engineering Union, Broken Hill Branch - Records, 1898 - 1980, 88/7; Broken Hill City Library, Outback Archives. Details

James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives

• Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union Collection, 1894 - 1984, 38; James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Jack Hooke interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project, 1986, ORAL TRC 1948/10; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1881 - 1983, N131; Z446; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1867 - 1980, N24; Z112; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, c. 1852 - 1991, Z102; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1937 - 1977, E262; E245 (pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Con Zaglas & Michael Doogan Papers, 1979 - 1984, Z505; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Everleigh Loco Combined Unions Shop Stewards Committee - Records, 1940 - 1988, Z305; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Federated Shipwrights & Ship Constructors Association of Australia - Records, 1916 - 1979, N24 (pt); Z102 (pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Frank Bollins Papers, 1914 - 1983, Z125; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Gilbert Stead Papers, 1881 - 1988, Z88; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Jack Garland Papers, 1952 - 1991, Z503; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Ron Arnold Papers, 1946 - 1981, Z76; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Tom Wright Papers, 1926 - 1978, N33; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Trades & Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory - Records, 1931 - 1992, Z147; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Amalgamated Metal Workers Union - Records, 1899 - , SRG 153; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union - Records, 1972 - 1979, 1987.0052; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1972 - 1980, 1987.0117; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1940 - 1988, 2001.0046; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1959 - 1996, 2001.0038; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1876 - 1988, 1995.0096; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Amalgamated Metal, Foundry & Shipwrights Union - Records, 1912 - 1979, 1983.0077; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Kevin Hince Collection, 1959 - 1977, 1994.0147; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

University of Wollongong Archives

• Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union 1977 - Records, 1977, C76; University of Wollongong Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Robinson, G., A History of the Newcastle Branch of the Boilermakers' Society of Australia 1877-1977, Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union, Sydney, 1977, 29 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• McCallum, Ronald Clive, 'Voluntary Trade Unionism in New South Wales: Timely Innovation or Backward Step?', Australian Journal of Labour law, vol. 71, 1994, p. 1. Details
• Scalmer, Sean and Irving, Terry, 'The Rise of the Modern Labour Technocrat: Intellectual Labour and the Transformation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, 1973-85', Labour History, vol. 77, 1999, pp. 64-82. Details

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