Trade Union entry Australian Saddlery Trades Employees Federation (1908 - 1915)

Summary

Originally formed in 1908 as the Australian Saddlery Trades Employees' Federation, this union has a direct lineage with one of Victoria's traditional eight-hour craft unions. By 1915 the Australian Saddlery Trades Employees' Federation had become the Australian Saddlery & Leather Workers Trades Employees' Federation. Deregistered in 1918, the Australian Saddlery & Leather Workers Trades Employees' Federation was reregistered under this name again later that year. In 1922, after members of the deregistered Australian Sail & Tent Makers' Society began joining the union it was impelled to change its name again, this time to the Australian Saddlery Leather Sail & Canvas Workers Trades Employees' Federation. In 1924 the union became the Australian Saddlery Leather Sail Canvas Tanning Leather Dressing & Allied Workers Trades Employees' Federation which lasted until 1945 when it opted for the more manageable Australian Leather & Allied Trades Employees' Federation. This union suffered from changing markets and fashions as well as the introduction of mechanisation and synthetic materials and was de-registered in 1972. Its members, however, went on to enter the fold of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia.

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Timeline

 1908 - 1915 Australian Saddlery Trades Employees Federation
       1915 - 1918 Australian Saddlery & Leather Workers Trades Employees Federation (i)

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Chart 14: Trade Unions - Hospitality, Liqor and miscellaneous Workers', in Parties to the Award, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/ptta/035.html. Details