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Trade Union entry Federated Rubber Workers Union of Australia (1923 - 1933)

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    Chart 9: Trade Unions - Distribution/Warehousing and Manufacturing - Clothing and Apparel
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From
1923
To
1933
Functions
Trade Union (Federal)
Reference No
044V

Summary

Federated and registered in 1911 as the Rubber Workers' Union of Australia, this union immediately recognised the growing importance of motor transport within the Australian economy, particularly in terms of how it would affect the rubber industry. By 1916 the union had changed names to the Federated Rubber Workers of Australia. In 1923 its name changed again, this time to the Federated Rubber Workers' Union of Australia. Ten years later, in 1933, it became the Federated Rubber & Allied Workers' Union of Australia. In common with textile and clothing unions, the Rubber and Allied Worker's Union sought to deal with the problem of high labour turnover and with improving the position of migrant labour in Australian industry. After amalgamating with the Storemen and Packers' Union in 1988 to form the National Union of Storeworkers Packers Rubber & Allied Workers, it eventually became part of the National Union of Workers in 1991.

Timeline

 1911 - 1916 Rubber Workers Union of Australia
       1916 - 1923 Federated Rubber Workers of Australia
             1923 - 1933 Federated Rubber Workers Union of Australia
                   1933 - 1988 Federated Rubber & Allied Workers Union of Australia
                         1988 - 1991 National Union of Storeworkers Packers Rubber & Allied Workers
                               1991 - 1992 National Union of Workers (i)
                                     1992 - National Union of Workers (ii)

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Federated Rubber and Allied Workers' Union of Australia, Federal Council - Records, 1930 - 1960, 1976.0051; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Federated Rubber and Allied Workers' Union of Australia, Federal Council - Records, 1922 - 1972, 1973.0054; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Federated Rubber and Allied Workers' Union of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1912 - 1962, 1980.0102; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Federated Rubber and Allied Workers' Union of Australia, Victorian Branch And Tasmanian Branch - Records, 1927 - 1982, 1985.0135; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

University of Wollongong Archives

  • Federated Rubber and Allied Workers' Union of Australia, N.S.W. Branch - Records, 1918 - 1973, D42; University of Wollongong Archives. Details

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