Communication Workers Union of Australia

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Communication Workers Union (CWU)
Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, Communications Division
Communications Workers Union of Australia
Founded1912
HeadquartersMelbourne, Sydney, Perth
Location
Key people
Shane Murphy, Divisional President Greg Rayner, Divisional Secretary
Parent organization
Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU)
Affiliations ACTU, Australian Labor Party
Website www.cwu.org.au – National Divisional Office

www.cwucentral.org.au – Central Branch (NSW/ACT/QLD/SA/NT)

cwuwa.org – WA Branch

www.cwuvic.asn.au – VIC Branch

The Communication Workers Union of Australia is a trade union in Australia. It is a division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia.

It was formed in 1992 as a standalone Union following the merger of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association/Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers Association. At the time of the merger the union had a membership of approximately 85,000. [1] :36 In 1993 it absorbed the Telecommunications Officers Association (TOA). The CWU amalgamated with the ETU and PPTEU to form the CEPU in 1994, thereafter becoming a division of the larger union. The three CEPU Divisions largely operate autonomously, as separate entities, on a day to day basis. [2]

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References

  1. Bolton, Brian (1993). Telecommunications Services: Negotiating Structural and Technological Change. Geneva: International Labour Organisation. ISBN   92-2-108263-6.
  2. "Communication Workers Union of Australia (ii) (1993 - 1994)". Australian Trade Union Archives. Retrieved 17 July 2021.