Railway trade unions in Australia

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Railway Unions in Australia organised labour of railway employees in Australia operated under federal and State awards - this is a partial list of known unions. Many of the unions amalgamated over time, creating a complex trail of ancestry for some of the later unions.

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Federal Award unions

The following unions were based on federal - Australian wide awards [1]

New South Wales

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

Some of the following unions were the railway related unions in Western Australia. [9]

Records and archives

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre at Australian National University is one of the more significant repositories of railway union records in Australia [17]

Notes

  1. "Parties to the Award, Pedigree Charts ~ Federally Registered Trade Unions, page 41".
  2. The Australian Railways Union formed in September 1920 with the amalgamation of the Queensland Railways Union, the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, the Victorian Railway Union, the Railway and Tramway Employees Association of South Australia and the Tasmanian Railway Union. It was the first Australian all-grades organisation of railway workers and was federally registered on 8 February 1921. In 1993 the ARU merged with other unions to form the Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union. - see http://archives-dev.anu.edu.au/icaatom-1.3.0/index.php/australian-railways-union-tasmanian-branch-deposit-2;isad
  3. Australian Railways Union. N.S.W. Branch (1900), Report of the Australian Railways Union N.S.W. State Branch ... : State Secretary's report, financial statement and balance sheet, The Branch, retrieved 15 February 2014
  4. Australian Railways Union. Western Australian Branch (1900), On-track, A.R.U., W.A. Branch, retrieved 15 February 2014
  5. Saunders, Malcolm; Lloyd, Neil (1 November 2011), "Arbitration or collaboration? The Australasian Society of Engineers in South Australia, 1904-68.(Essay)", Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (101): 123(22), ISSN   0023-6942
  6. Australian Railways Union. Tasmanian Branch (1976), Tasmanian railway review : the official publication of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Railways Union, The Union, ISSN   0313-2374
  7. Australian Railways Union. Victorian Branch; Australian Federated Union of Locomotives Enginemen. Victorian Division (1954), ABC always be careful : a manual showing how to work strictly to regulations on the Victorian railways, Industrial Print, retrieved 15 February 2014
  8. Australian Railways Union. Victorian Branch (1981), Gazette : official organ of the Australian Railways Union (Victorian Branch), The Branch, retrieved 15 February 2014
  9. Found listed at Transport industry union records, 1899-2001 [manuscript] in Battye Library at
  10. Australian Railways Union. Western Australian Branch (1900), On-track, A.R.U., W.A. Branch, retrieved 15 February 2014
  11. West Australian Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees' Union of Workers (1930), Rules of the West Australian Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees' Union of Workers, West Australian Amalgamated Society of Railways Employees Union of Workers, retrieved 15 February 2014
  12. West Australian Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees Union of Workers (1900), Official report of proceedings of the triennial Conference, The Union, retrieved 15 February 2014
  13. West Australian Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees (1902), The railway news : the official organ of the W.A. Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees, The Society, retrieved 15 February 2014
  14. West Australian Railway Officers' Union (1962), Award, constitution, rules and by-laws, standing orders, Railway by-law no. 66, dated September, 1962, Perth, retrieved 24 March 2013
  15. Railway Officers Union (W.A.) (1896), Railway Officers Union (W.A.) records, 1896-1994 , retrieved 15 February 2014
  16. Western Australian Railway Unions Joint Executive (1937), 40 - hour working week : why? : what is necessary : your part, "Worker" Print, retrieved 15 February 2014
  17. http://archives-dev.anu.edu.au/icaatom-1.3.0/index.php/noel-butlin-archives-centre;isdiah

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