Trade Union entry Australasian Society of Engineers (ii) (1938 - 1991)

Summary

The Australasian Society of Engineers was established in 1890, first federally registered as a trade union in 1910 and became defunct in February 1938. An organisation with the same name was reregistered in August 1938, which existed until 1991 when it amalgamated with the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia to form the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees. A quick succession of amalgamations in September 1992 to the Australian Glass Workers' Union and then in November 1992 to a number of unions representing brushmakers, rope and cordage workers and carpenters and joiners caused the union to reregister on both occasions but under the same name. This union later amalgamated with the Australian Workers' Union to form the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union in 1993, later known simply as the AWU. This union was not related to the Amalgamated Society of Engineers which later became the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Related entries

Timeline

 1938 - 1991 Australasian Society of Engineers (ii)
       1991 - 1992 Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees (i)
             1992 Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees (ii)
                   1992 - 1993 Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees (iii)
                         1993 - AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union

Archival resources

Archives Office of Tasmania

• Australian Society of Engineers - Correspondence and Minutes, 1968-1975, 1968 - 1975, NS552; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Australasian Society of Engineers - Records, 1905 - 1991, E113; Z479; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Australasian Society of Engineers - Records, 1906 - 1990, Z434; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Australasian Society of Engineers - Records, 1890 - 1979, Z422; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Kevin Hince Collection, 1959 - 1977, 1994.0147; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

University of Wollongong Archives

• Australasian Society of Engineers - Metal Trades Award, 1946, A366; University of Wollongong Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Goodwin, R., Pattern for Struggle: A Brief History of the Australasian Society of Engineers, Information Division, NSW Branch, Australasian Society of Engineers, Sydney, 1968, 31 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Gollan, Daphne, 'Duly and Hansford Strike, 1943: Find the Strikers', in Bevege, Margaret, James, Margaret and Shute, Carmel (eds), Worth her Salt: Women at Work in Australia, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, pp. 309-318. Details

Online Resources

• 'Chart 22: Trade Unions - Rural Industries. Infrastructure and Manufacturing - Metals and General', in Parties to the Award, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/ptta/043.html. Details