Trade Union entry Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i) (1973 - 1976)
- From
- 1973
- To
- 1976
- Functions
- Trade Union (Federal)
Summary
While directly stemming from the Amalgamated Engineering Union, this union has formed and reformed from the amalgamations of many metal trades unions. In 1973 it joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union, unions representing sheet metal workers, boilermakers and blacksmiths as well as the Federated Jewellers' Watchmakers' & Allied Trades Union of Australia to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union. In 1976 the union amalgamated with the Federated Shipwrights' & Ship Constructors' Association of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights Union. In 1983 it joined the Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights' Union. It reverted to the name Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union in 1985 before a round of amalgamations saw this name change again, this time to the Metals and Engineering Workers' Union (1991), the Automotive Metals & Engineering Union (1993), and finally the Automotive Food Metals & Engineering Union in 1994.
Related entries
Timeline
1938 - 1969 Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section)
1969 - 1973 Amalgamated Engineering Union
1973 - 1976 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (i)
1976 - 1983 Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union
1983 - 1985 Amalgamated Metals Foundry & Shipwrights Union
1985 - 1991 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (ii)
1991 - 1993 Metals & Engineering Workers Union
1993 - 1994 Automotive Metals & Engineering Union
1994 - 1995 Automotive Food Metals & Engineering Union
1995 - Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing & Kindred Industries Union
Member(s)
Archival resources
Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle
- Amalgamated Engineering Union, Maitland Branch - Records, 1938 - 1975, A6532-A6533; Archives Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle. Details
Broken Hill City Library, Outback Archives
- Amalgamated Engineering Union, Broken Hill Branch - Records, 1898 - 1980, 88/7; Broken Hill City Library, Outback Archives. Details
James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives
- Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union Collection, 1894 - 1984, 38; James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives. Details
- Fred Thompson Papers, 1952 - 1976, 8L-16L; James Cook University of North Queensland, Library Archives. Details
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
- Frank Bollins interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project, 1987, ORAL TRC 1948/26; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details
Newcastle Region Library
- Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Wollongong Regional Office (D43), 1980, 025.171/PAM BOX; University of Wollongong, Archives Unit; Newcastle Region Library. Details
The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program
- Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1937 - 1977, E262; E245 (pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, c. 1852 - 1991, Z102; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1867 - 1980, N24; Z112; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1852 - 1975, E209; E162; E221; Z102; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1881 - 1983, N131; Z446; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1880 - 1975, Z240; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Amalgamated Engineering Union - Records, 1852 - 1983, E140; M24; N24 (pt); E157; P109; Z102 (pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Everleigh Loco Combined Unions Shop Stewards Committee - Records, 1940 - 1988, Z305; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Frank Bollins Papers, 1914 - 1983, Z125; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Gilbert Stead Papers, 1881 - 1988, Z88; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Jack Davison Papers, 1891 - 1974, P117; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Jack Garland Papers, 1952 - 1991, Z503; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Ron Arnold Papers, 1946 - 1981, Z76; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement & Stove Making Industrial Union of Australia - Records, 1881 - 1975, T23; N33; E196 (pt); E206 (pt); E232; E245; E262 (pt); The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
- Tom Wright Papers, 1926 - 1978, N33; The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program. Details
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
- Amalgamated Metal Workers Union - Records, 1899 - , SRG 153; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1940 - 1988, 2001.0046; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1959 - 1996, 2001.0038; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1876 - 1988, 1995.0096; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, Victorian Branch - Records, 1972 - 1980, 1987.0117; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Amalgamated Metal, Foundry & Shipwrights Union - Records, 1912 - 1979, 1983.0077; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Kevin Hince Collection, 1959 - 1977, 1994.0147; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Stan Willis Papers, 1903 - 1979, 1980.0106; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
University of Wollongong Archives
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Scalmer, Sean and Irving, Terry, 'The Rise of the Modern Labour Technocrat: Intellectual Labour and the Transformation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, 1973-85', Labour History, vol. 77, 1999, pp. 64-82. Details
Bruce A. Smith
Created: 21 May 2001, Last modified: 6 August 2010