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- 1882 - 1959 (Creation)
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Victorian Operative Boot Trade Union was formed in the early 1880s. In 1907-1908 it became the Victorian Branch of the Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation.
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The Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation was registered federally in 1908 following the earlier registration of the Adelaide, New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian state-based unions. The Union existed independently until the 1980s when imports began to affect the footwear and clothing industries. In 1987 it amalgamated with the Australian Textile Workers' Union to become the Amalgamated Footwear and Textile Workers' Union of Australia, and in 1992, a further amalgamation with the Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union created the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia.
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Minutes of the general meetings of Victorian Operative Boot Trade Union and then Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation (1882 - 1939), minutes of the meetings of the management committee of the Victorian Operative Boot Trade Union and then Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation (1889 - 1939), minutes of the Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation interstate conference with employers (1932, 1935), balance sheets (1904 - 1939), cash books (1893 - 1916), loan receipts 1917 - 1920), butts of transfer books (1907 - 1939), register of strike money paid by members (n.d), boot trade determinations (1898 - 1937), rules and standing orders (1930s - 1950s), and printed material.
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Digitised copies of four volumes of Victorian Operative Bootmakers Union minutes (1882 - 1900) are available at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/123246
Digitised copies of three volumes of Victorian Operative Bootmakers Union Management Committee minutes (1889 - 1906) are available at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/123247
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See also NBAC T4, NBAC T6, NBAC T49, NBAC E131, NBAC 134, NBAC 141, NBAC N41, NBAC N42, NBAC Z304, NBAC Z471
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Four volumes of Victorian Operative Bootmakers Union minutes (1882 - 1900) and three volumes of Victorian Operative Bootmakers Union Management Committee minutes (1889 - 1906) are inscribed on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register as part of the Minute Books of Pre-Federation Australian Trade Unions (http://www.amw.org.au/register/listings/minute-books-pre-federation-australian-trade-unions)
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Entered from deposit description on 15 February 2013