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AU NBAC Z147
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- 1931 - 1995 (Creation)
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43.2 m
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The Trades and Labour Council of the Federal Capital Territory was formed at a meeting on 16 April 1931 in the Parks and Gardens Cottage in Acton with representatives from the Australian Workers' Union, the Federated Clerks' Union, the Operative Plasterers' Federation, the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union, the Electrical Trades Union, the Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Employees' Union, the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union, the Slaters', Tilers' and Shinglers' Union, and the Australasian Society of Engineers. It changed its name to the Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory in 1938. Programs associated with the Trades and Labour Council have included Art in Working Life, the Canberra Union Voices Choir, and the Workwatch Occupational Health and Safety Training Centre. It changed its name to UnionsACT in 2002.
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Minutes of general meetings (1931-1993), Executive Committee (1973-1988) and committees, reports, correspondence with registers, financial records, subject files, records of Charles McDonald relating to his role as Secretary and also to the Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch), the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia (ACT Division) and the Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union (ACT), posters, newspaper cuttings and printed material.
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Researchers must complete an access agreement. Access to items other than campaign material is restricted and researchers will need UnionsACT permission to use it.
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Entered from deposit description 8 November 2012