Trade Union entry Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia (1918 - 1993)

Summary

The Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union originated as a craft union in the nineteenth century and has retained that tradition within the building industry at both state branch and federal level until large scale union amalgamations, initiated by the Australian Council of Trade Unions were considered in the late 1980s. Registered federally for the first time as the Federated House & Ship Painters Paperhangers & Decorators Employees' Association Australasia in 1910, by 1915 it had changed names to become the Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia. In 1918 the name changed again slightly to the Operative Painters' & Decorators' Union of Australia. Seventy-five years later, the union amalgamated to form the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union in 1993.

Related entries

Timeline

 1910 - 1915 Federated House & Ship Painters Paperhangers & Decorators Employees Association of Australasia
       1915 - 1918 Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia
             1918 - 1993 Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia
                   1993 - Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (ii)

Archival resources

Archives Office of Tasmania

• Minutes and Associated Records of the Operative Painters and Decorators Union, Tasmanian Branch, 1960 - 1993, NS1616; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details

Museum Victoria

• Banner - Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia, South Australian Branch, HT 11128; Museum Victoria. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Sid Vaughan interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project, 1986?, ORAL TRC 1948/7; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program

• Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia - Records, 1915 - 1966, E190; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia - Records, 1890 - 1957, E109; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia - Records, 1917 - 1988, Z392(pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
• Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia - Records, 1977 - 1994, Z291(pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Painters and Decorators Union - Records, 1917 - 1926, SRG 730; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, Federal Office - Records, 1993, 1993.0030; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, Federal Office - Records, 1974 - 1991, 1991.0146; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch - Records, 1930 - 1989, 1992.0072; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch - Records, 1874 - 1981, 1983.0152; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1988, 1988.0123; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1987 - 1988, 1988.0114; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1988, 1990.0061; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
• Operative Painters and Decorators Union of Australia, Victorian Branch - Records, 1886 - 1972, 1973.0052; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Spierings, John, A Brush with History: the Painter's Union and the Australian Labor Movement, Hyland House, South Melbourne, Victoria, 1994, 186 pp. Details

Online Resources

• 'Chart 7: Trade Unions - Building, Construction, Mining and Timber Industries', in Parties to the Award, 2002, http://www.atua.org.au/ptta/028.html. Details

See also

• Woodward, A.E., 'Industrial Relations 1966-1967', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 9, no. 2, 1967, pp. 97-106. Details