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Trade Union entry Amalgamated Miners Association of Victoria (1874 - c. 1884)

From
1874
Victoria
To
c. 1884
Functions
Trade Union (State or Territory only)

Summary

Formed on the motion of delegates to a Conference of various miners associations held at Sandhurst (Bendigo) in June 1874. The Association merged in 1884 with several other unions, including the New South Wales coalminers, to become the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia.

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Timeline

 ? - 1874 Maldon Miners Association
 ? - 1874 Buninyong Miners Association
 ? - 1874 Blackwood Miners Association
 ? - 1874 Clunes Miners Association
 ? - 1874 Haddon Miners Association
 ? - 1874 St Arnaud Miners Association
 ? - 1874 Sandhurst Miners Association
 ? - 1874 Stawell Miners Association
 ? - 1874 Malmsbury Miners Association
 1870s - c. 1883 Creswick Miners Association
       1874 - c. 1884 Amalgamated Miners Association of Victoria
             c. 1884 - 1916 Amalgamated Miners Association of Australasia
                   1916 - 1990 Australasian Coal & Shale Employees Federation
                         1990 - 1992 United Mineworkers Federation of Australia
                               1992 Construction Forestry & Mining Employees Union
                                     1992 - 1993 Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (i)
                                           1993 - Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (ii)

Published resources

Books

  • Spence, W.G., Review of the First Ten Years' History of the Creswick Branch No 3 A.M.A of Australasia, Creswick Branch No 3 Amalgamated Miners Association of Australasia, Creswick, Victoria, 1888, 10 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Fahey, Charles, 'Labour and Trade Unionism in Victorian Goldmining', in McCalman, Iain; Cook, Alexander; Reeves, Andrew (ed.), Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, pp. 67-84. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 28 June 2001, Last modified: 12 December 2002