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 Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 was an event in Australian industrial relations history,in which the Patrick Corporation undertook a restructuring of their operations for the purpose of dismissing their workforce. The restructuring by Patrick Corporation was later ruled illegal by Australian courts. The dispute involved Patrick Corporation terminating the employment of its workforce and locking out the workers of the workplace after the restructuring had taken place,with many of these workers members of the dominant Maritime Union of Australia. The resulting dismissal and locking out of their unionised workforce was supported and backed by the Australian Liberal/National Coalition Government.
The National Union of Seamen (NUS) was the principal trade union of merchant seafarers in the United Kingdom from the late 1880s to 1990. In 1990,the union amalgamated with the National Union of Railwaymen to form the National Union of Rail,Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT).
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 Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) is a representative,an advocacy group,or peak body,of Queensland trade union organisations,also known as a labour council,in the Queensland,Australia. As of 2020,26 unions and 13 regional branches were affiliated with the QCU. The QCU represents unions covering around 350,000 Queensland workers. It is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Its offices are located in the suburb of South Brisbane,Queensland. As a peak body for the Queensland trade unions,the objective of the QCU is to achieve industrial,social and political justice for Queensland workers. The management structure of the QCU is made up of a committee of management and an executive of representatives comprised from affiliated unions.
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 Australian Services Union is a trade union representing workers in a variety of industries.
The Construction,Forestry,Maritime,Mining and Energy Union is Australia's main trade union in construction,forestry,maritime,mining,energy,textile,clothing and footwear production. The CFMMEU is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions,with the Australian Labor Party and with the World Federation of Trade Unions.
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.
The Seamen's Union of Australia (SUA) was the principal trade union for merchant seamen in Australia from 1876 to 1991. The SUA developed a reputation as one of the most militant trade unions in Australia and was closely associated with the communist movement in Australia. The SUA merged in 1993 with the Waterside Workers' Federation to become the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).
Robert Williams was a British trade union organiser.
Sharan Leslie Burrow is the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and a former president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) (2000–2010). She is the first woman to become General Secretary of the ITUC since its foundation in 2006,and was the second woman to become President of the ACTU.
Tasnor Ivan "Tas" Bull was an Australian trade union leader,serving as General Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation from 1984 to 1993.
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." The Trust receives funds from both the Trust's own capital funds and by the investment income of the ITF Seafarers' International Assistance,Welfare and Protection Fund,more commonly known as the "Welfare Fund". That fund,despite its name,is used to provide a wide range of trade union services to seafarers. The Trust is limited to supporting projects which directly benefit individual seafarers' spiritual,moral or physical welfare.
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.
The Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia (WWF) was an Australian trade union that existed from 1902 to 1993. After a period of negotiations between other Australian maritime unions,it was federated in 1902 and first federally registered in 1907;its first general president was Billy Hughes.
The International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) is an international NGO and UK registered charity that aims to assists seafarers and their families. ISWAN is the result of a merger between two organisations. These were the International Committee on Seafarers' Welfare (ICSW) and the International Seafarers Assistance Network (ISAN). ICSW was formed in 1973 and ISAN was established in the late 1990s. These two welfare bodies merged in April 2013 to form ISWAN. ISWAN's headquarters are in Croydon,Greater London.
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.
