Vincent Clair Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957,when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party from 1965 to 1973. In 1974 he was appointed Australian Ambassador to Ireland by the Whitlam government,which caused his expulsion from the DLP.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU),originally the Australasian Council of Trade Unions,is the largest peak body representing workers in Australia. It is a national trade union centre of 46 affiliated unions and eight trades and labour councils. The ACTU is a member of the International Trade Union Confederation.
The Labor Right,also known as Modern Labor or Labor Unity,is a political faction of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) at the national level that is characterised by being more supportive of free markets and can be more socially conservative than the Labor Left. The Labor Right is a broad alliance of various state factions and competes with the Labor Left faction.
William McCormack was Premier of Queensland,Australia,from 1925 to 1929.
William Guthrie Spence,was an Australian trade union leader and politician,played a leading role in the formation of both Australia's largest union,the Australian Workers' Union,and the Australian Labor Party.
A general union is a trade union which represents workers from all industries and companies,rather than just one organisation or a particular sector,as in a craft union or industrial union. A general union differs from a union federation or trades council in that its members are individuals,not unions. The creation of general unions,from the early nineteenth century in the United Kingdom and somewhat later elsewhere,occurred around the same time as efforts began to unionise workers in new industries,in particular those where employment could be irregular.
The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the late 1880s and it currently has approximately 80,000 members. It has exercised an outsized influence on the Australian Trade Union movement and on the Australian Labor Party throughout its history.
The 'Amalgamated Workers Union' (AWU) is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. AWU was formed in 1936 and originally registered in 1938 as the Amalgamated Building and Woodworkers Union following the historic Butler-led labour rebellions of that era. It was a time before sewers when garbage was carried away by donkey carts out of the nation's sceptic tanks in the middle of the night by the bucket and barrel. More than eighty years later,while the machinery may have changed to pumps and metal trucks,The Union's core membership remains the same. The members continue to be the vital Workers on the ground,the bedrock and lifeblood of our capital city and our nation:the sanitation support Workers of the Port of Spain Corporation;the Clerks and Cleaners in downtown malls of East Side Plaza and New City Mall;the factory Workers at the internationally recognized Bermudez Biscuit Company;the Funeral Attendants and Drivers at Belgroves Funeral Home;the Cooks and Counter-staff of local fast-food giant,Royal Castle Limited;and many others. AWU is one of the first trade unions in our nation.
Edward Grayndler was an Australian trade unionist and politician. He served as general secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) from 1912 to 1941,the longest term in the union's history.
Cesar Melhem is a former State Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU),and a former Member for Western Metropolitan Region in the Legislative Council,Parliament of Victoria,between 2013 and 2022.
The AWU affair refers to allegations of embezzlement via a fund established for the AWU Workplace Reform Association in the early 1990s by Bruce Wilson and Ralph Blewitt,officials of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU). Wilson and Blewitt raised $400,000 from major construction companies,and have been accused of using the funds for personal benefit,including diverting funds for the purchase of a house in Fitzroy.
The Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia (FIA) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1911 and 1991. It represented labourers and semi-skilled workers employed in the steel industry and ironworking,and later also the chemical industry.
Tom Nicholson Pearce Dougherty,was an Australian trade union official and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. As National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union (AWU) from 1944 to 1972,he was one of the most powerful figures in the Australian labor movement and the Labor Party.
Koo Kyo-hyun is a delegate of the Labor Party,and a convener of the Arbeit Workers Union in South Korea.
Fallon House is a heritage-listed trade union office at 1 Maryborough Street,Bundaberg Central,Bundaberg,Bundaberg Region,Queensland,Australia. It was designed by David Ballinger Goodsir and Harold James Carlyle and built in 1953 by Llewellyn Herbert Edwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 December 2012.
Daniel Laurence McNamara was an Australian politician.
The Pulp and Paper Workers Federation of Australia (PPWF) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1913 and 1991. The PPWF represented workers in the pulp and paper industry.
David Temple was an influential early Australian trade unionist.
Alphabet Workers Union (AWU),also informally referred to as the Google Union,is an American trade union of workers employed at Alphabet Inc.,Google's parent company,with a membership of over 800,in a company with 130,000 employees,not including temps,contractors,and vendors in the United States. It was announced on January 4,2021 with an initial membership of over 400,after over a year of secret organizing,and the union includes all types of workers at Alphabet,including full-time,temporary,vendors and contractors of all job types.
