Trade Union entry Federated Artificial Manure Trade & Chemical Workers Union of Australia (1913 - 1921)

Summary

Formed in 1913 as a breakaway union to the then communist-controlled Federated Ironworkers' Association, the Federated Artificial Manure Trade & Chemical Workers' Union of Australia underwent a change of name in 1921 to the Federated Artificial Fertilizers & Chemical Workers' Union of Australia. By the end of 1948 this union had been deregistered and then reregistered under the same name. In 1975 the union was amalgamated back into the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. When the Australasian Society of Engineers merged with the union in 1991 it created the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees. By 1993 the union had amalgamated three more times, the last with the powerful Australian Workers' Union, to ultimately form the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union.

Related entries

Timeline

 1913 - 1921 Federated Artificial Manure Trade & Chemical Workers Union of Australia
       1921 - 1948 Federated Artificial Fertilizers & Chemical Workers Union of Australia (i)

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Federated Fertilizers & Chemical Workers Union - Records, 1910 - 1974, SRG 501; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Federated Artificial Fertilizers and Chemical Workers' Union of Australia - Records, 1914 - 1973, 1984.0124; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

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