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 International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions,founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries,representing a combined membership of 19.7 million transport workers in all industrial transport sectors:civil aviation,dockers,inland navigation,seafarers,road transport,railways,fisheries,urban transport and tourism. The ITF represents the interests of transport workers' unions in bodies that take decisions affecting jobs,employment conditions or safety in the transport industry.
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.
The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) is the peak body of trade union organisations,also known as a labour council,in Queensland,Australia.
The Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union (RTBU) is an Australian trade union representing rail,tram and bus workers. The RTBU is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) was a union which covered waterside workers,seafarers,port workers,professional divers,and office workers associated with Australian ports. The MUA was formed in 1993 with merger of the Seamen's Union of Australia and the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia.
The Construction,Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) is Australia’s largest union in the construction,forestry,maritime,textile,clothing and footwear production industries.
Eliot Valens Elliott,also known as Vic Elliott,was a trade union leader of the Seamen's Union of Australia (SUA) from 1941 to 1978.
Robert Williams was a British trade union organiser.
The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry,England,located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collection on British industrial relations,as well as archives relating to many other aspects of British social,political and economic history.
The Norwegian Seafarers' Union,NSU,is a trade union representing sailors in Norway.
The ITF Seafarers' Trust is a charitable maritime trust located in London,United Kingdom. It was established in 1981 by the Executive Board of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF),a global federation of transport workers' unions with over 4.6 million worker members. The stated mission of the Trust is to assist with "the moral,spiritual and physical welfare of seafarers regardless of nationality,race or creed."
Stephen Cotton is the general secretary of the International Transport Workers’Federation (ITF) –a global union federation of 677 trade unions representing 19.7 million workers in 149 countries in the seafaring,port,road,rail,tourism and aviation sectors. He was elected to the position at the 43rd ITF Congress held in Sofia,Bulgaria in 2014 and reelected at the 44th ITF Congress held in Singapore in 2018.
Rob Johnston is the assistant general secretary of the International Transport Workers’Federation - a global union federation of trade unions in the seafaring,port,road,rail,tourism and aviation industries.
The International Seafarers' Federation (ISF) was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing sailors.
Pieter de Vries was a Dutch trade union leader.
David Heindel is an American labor union leader.
The Mining and Energy Union (MEU) is Australia's main trade union in the coal industry including mines,power stations and ports. It also covers workers in the metalliferous mining and exploration industries,as well as specific classes of workers working in the oil,gas,nuclear chemical production and power generation industries. The MEU is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
