Communication Workers Union of Australia
Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, Communications Division | |
Communications Workers Union of Australia | |
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Merged into | Communications Electrical & Plumbing Union of Australia |
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Founded | 1912 |
Headquarters | Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart |
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Key people | Shane Murphy, Divisional President Greg Rayner, Divisional Secretary |
Parent organization | Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia (CEPU) |
Affiliations | ACTU Australian Labor Party |
Website | www www cwuqld www cwuwa www |
The Communication Workers Union of Australia is a trade union in Australia. It is a division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia.
It was formed in 1992 as a standalone union following the merger of the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association/Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers Association and Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. At the time of the merger the union had a membership of approximately 85,000.[1]: 36 In 1993 it absorbed the Telecommunications Officers Association (TOA), itself the result of a merger in 1991 between the and the . The CWU merged into the CEPU in 1994, thereafter becoming a division of the larger union.[2]
References[]
- ^ Bolton, Brian (1993). Telecommunications Services: Negotiating Structural and Technological Change. Geneva: International Labour Organisation. ISBN 92-2-108263-6.
- ^ "Communication Workers Union of Australia (ii) (1993 - 1994)". Australian Trade Union Archives. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
External links[]
- Trade unions in Australia
- UNI Global Union
- Communications trade unions
- Trade unions established in 1912
- 1912 establishments in Australia