Trade Union entry Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union (1983 - 1985)

Summary

Formed by the amalgamation of the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union in 1983, the Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights' Union had within its membership sheet metal workers, boilermakers, engineers, jewellers, moulders and of course, shipwrights and ship constructors. In 1985 the union changed its name to the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union to more adequately reflect the plethora of metal workers under its protection. A round of amalgamations saw this 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

 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)
                         1930 - 1983 Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia
                         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 - 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 - Records, 1972 - 1986, A6657; 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

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, c. 1852 - 1991, Z102; 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
• 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

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' 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 Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1983 - 1987, 1989.0054; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Journal Articles

• 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