Trade Union entry Manufacturing Grocers Employees Federation of Australia (1914 - 1988)

Summary

Established in October 1906 and registered in 1908 as the Federated Candle Soap Soda & Starch Employees' Union of Australia, this union remained, throughout its many incarnations, small in membership but tended to concentrate in wide and disparate areas of grocers' sundries and non-edible groceries manufacture. In 1914 the union changed names to become the Manufacturing Grocers Employees' Federation of Australia. An attempt was made during the 1920s to form a NSW branch of this new union to accompany the existing Victorian and South Australian Branches. However the Australian Workers' Union strongly opposed any such endeavours. In 1988 this union formed the Federated Millers & Manufacturing Grocers Employees' Association of Australasia with the Federated Millers & Mill Employees' Association. In 1992 this union became part of the National Union of Workers.

Related entries

Timeline

 1908 - 1914 Federated Candle Soap Soda & Starch Employees Union of Australia
       1914 - 1988 Manufacturing Grocers Employees Federation of Australia
             1988 - 1992 Federated Millers & Manufacturing Grocers Employees Association of Australasia
                   1992 - National Union of Workers (ii)

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• F.J. Riley papers, 1925 - 1951, A3222; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Manufacturing Grocers' Employees' Federation - Records, c. 1910 - 1949, SRG 135; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
• Wool and Basil Workers Federation (S.A.) - Records, c. 1940 - 1949, SRG 136; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Norman Arthur Gibbs - Papers, 1948-1983, 1948 - 1983, MS 11817; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Manufacturing Grocers' Employees Federation of Australia - Records, 1907 - 1972, 1979.0100; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Manufacturing Grocers' Employees Federation of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1949 - 1977, 1979.0111; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Chart 9: Trade Unions - Distribution/Warehousing and Manufacturing - Clothing and Apparel', in Parties to the Award, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/ptta/030.html. Details