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Trade Union entry Australian Transport Officers Federation (1978 - 1991)

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    Chart 6: Trade Unions - Administrative Services and Local Government
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From
1978
To
1991
Functions
Trade Union (Federal)
Reference No
137V

Summary

The Australian Transport Officers' Federation [ATOF] began as the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association registered in New South Wales in 1913 and believed to be the first registration of an organisation of salaried railway and tramway employees in Australia.

In 1924 that organisation amalgamated with the first federally registered organisation of salaried officers, the Victorian Railways Administrative Officers' and Clerks' Association which was formed in 1921. The name of the amalgamated union was the Federation of Salaried Officers of Railways Commissioners.

In 1947 the name was changed to the more familiar name of the Australasian Transport Officers' Federation and in 1978 it changed its name once more to the Australian Transport Officers' Federation.

By 1991 the union had merged with the Technical Service Guild of Australia and the Municipal Officers' Association of Australia to form the Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community & Information Services Union. Further amalgamations in 1992 and 1993, although not causing a change of name for the union, did require it reregistering on both occasions. Another amalgamation later in 1993, this time with the Federated Clerks' Union and the Federated Municipal & Shire Council Employees' Union, formed the Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical & Services Union. Following an amalgamation with the Totalisator Employees' Association of Victoria this union was reregistered in 1994.

Timeline

 1921 - 1924 Victorian Railways Administrative Officers & Clerks Association
       1924 - 1947 Federation of Salaried Officers of Railways Commissioners
             1947 - 1978 Australasian Transport Officers Federation
                   1978 - 1991 Australian Transport Officers Federation
                         1991 - 1992 Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community & Information Services Union (i)
                               1992 - 1993 Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community & Information Services Union (ii)
                                     1993 Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community & Information Services Union (iii)
                                           1993 - 1994 Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical & Services Union (i)
                                                 1994 - Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical & Services Union (ii)

Archival resources

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

  • Australian Transport Officers Federation - Records, 1932 - 1992, N73; Z280; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

  • Australian Transport Officers Federation - Records, 1908 - 1988, SRG 419; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Australian Transport Officers' Federation, Victorian Division - Records, 1979 - 1991, 1992.0075; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Australian Transport Officers' Federation, Victorian Division - Records, 1981 - 1986, 1987.0121; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

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Chart 6: Trade Unions - Administrative Services and Local Government
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Bruce A. Smith