Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation

Identity area

Type of entity

Trade union

Authorized form of name

Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation

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      Other form(s) of name

      • Builders' Labourers' Federation
      • Australian Builders' Labourers' Federation

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      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1911 - 1986

      History

      Formed in 1911, the Australian Builders' Labourers' Federation's predecessors include the United Labourers' Friendly Society (1850s), the Melbourne United Labourers' Protection Society (1882), the Builders' Labourers' Union of Victoria (1898), the United Labourers' Protective Society of New South Wales (1883), the Builders' Labourers' Union of New South Wales (1901), the Adelaide Builders' Labourers' Society, and the Brisbane Builders' Labourers' Union. The Western Australian union joined the Federation in 1966. In 1972 it became the Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation until it was deregistered in 1974. It was registered again in 1976, but following a joint Federal and Victorian government Royal Commission was deregistered in 1986. Many members transferred to the Building Workers' Industrial Union and the Western Australian, Queensland, South Australian and Tasmanian branches merged with the BWIU. Branches in New South Wales and Victoria continued to operate into the 1990s and in the Australian Capital Territory till 1989.

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      Representation for construction workers

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      Related entity

      Owens, Joseph (1935 - 2012)

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      Category of relationship

      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1973 - 1975

      Description of relationship

      Secretary of the New South Wales Branch

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      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Entered from deposit description 5 October 2012

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          Sources

          Australian Trade Union Archives website: www.atua.org.au

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