Identity area
Reference code
AU NBAC N284
Title
Date(s)
- 1989 - 2009 (Creation)
Level of description
Deposit
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Constuction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is the result of a series of amalgamations during the early 1990s. Prior to amalgamation there were numerous unions spread across construction, forestry, mining and energy industries. Those unions amalgamated along industry lines to form each of the divisions of the CFMEU. Each division operates autonomously, with its own membership, executive, resources, industry policies and campaigns. These divisions date as far back as the mid-nineteenth century and include such notable unions as the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (the Miners' Federation), the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, the Australian Timber Workers' Union, the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia, the Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia, the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union of Australia, and the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia.
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Posters produced or used by the union as part of campaigns.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Researchers must sign an access agreement