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Queensland Council of Unions

Index Queensland Council of Unions

The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) is a representative, peak body of Queensland trade union organisations, also known as a labour council, in the State of Queensland, Australia. [1]

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Amalgamated Workers Union

The Amalgamated Workers Union (AWU) is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Anthony Musgrave

Sir Anthony Musgrave GCMG (31 August 1828 – 9 October 1888) was a colonial administrator and governor.

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Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union

The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, better known as the Meatworkers Union, is an Australian trade union, registered with the AIRC and affiliated to the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

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Australian Council of Trade Unions

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is the largest peak body representing workers in Australia.

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Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Employees

The Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Employees (AFULE) is an Australian trade union representing railway workers.

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Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers

The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (AIMPE) is both an Australian professional association and a trade union.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian labour movement

The Australian labour movement has its origins in the early 19th century and includes both trade unions and political activity.

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Australian Manufacturing Workers Union

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, or more fully, the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union (AMWU) is an Australian trade union.

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Australian Maritime Officers Union

The Australian Maritime Officers Union (AMOU) is an Australian trade union that is registered with the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (and additionally registered in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia) and affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

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Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union

The Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union (RTBU), formerly known as the Public Transport Union or PTU, was formed on 1 March 1993, through the amalgamation of the Australian Railways Union, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees' Association and the National Union of Rail Workers' of Australia.

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Australian Services Union

The Australian Services Union (registered as the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union) is a trade union representing workers in a variety of industries.

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Australian Workers' Union

The Australian Workers Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Brisbane Trades Hall

The Brisbane Trades Hall is a former Trades Hall building in Edward Street Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Communication Workers Union of Australia

The Communication Workers Union of Australia is a trade union in Australia.

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Community and Public Sector Union

The Community and Public Sector Union (more commonly known as the CPSU) is a national trade union in Australia.

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Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union

The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) is Australia's main trade union in construction, forestry, maritime, mining, energy, textile, clothing and footwear production.

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Eight-hour day

The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses.

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Electrical Trades Union of Australia

The Electrical Trades Union of Australia (ETU) is a trade union in Australia which has a history stretching back over 100 years.

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Financial Services Union

The Financial Services Union (FSU) is a trade union representing staff in the finance sector in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and those employed by Irish financial institutions in Great Britain and overseas.

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Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet.

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History of Queensland

The history of Queensland encompasses both a long Aboriginal Australian presence as well as the more recent European settlement.

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Independent Education Union of Australia

The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU), with a current membership of over 75,000, is the federally registered industry union representing all employees working in non-government schools and institutions across Australia.

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John Hoolan

John Hoolan (1842 – 15 June 1911) was an Australian politician.

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John Petrie

John Petrie (15 January 1822 – 8 December 1892) was the first Mayor of Brisbane, an architect, stonemason and building contractor in that city.

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Labor Right

The Labor Right is the organised centrist and right faction of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) at the national level that tends to be more economically liberal and socially conservative than the Labor Left faction.

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Labour council

A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area.

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List of trade unions

This is a list of trade unions and union federations by country.

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Maritime Union of Australia

The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) covers waterside workers, seafarers, port workers, professional divers, and office workers associated with Australian ports.

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Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) (The Alliance) is the Australian trade union and professional organisation which covers the media, entertainment, sports and arts industries.

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National Tertiary Education Union

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is an Australian trade union for all higher education and university employees.

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National Union of Seamen

The National Union of Seamen (NUS) was the principal trade union of merchant seafarers in the United Kingdom from the late 1880s to 1990.

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National Union of Workers

The National Union of Workers (NUW) is an Australian trade union formed in 1989.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Peak organisation

A peak organisation or peak body is an Australian term for an advocacy group or trade association, an association of industries or groups with allied interests.

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Professionals Australia

Professionals Australia, formerly the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA), is an Australian employee association registered under state and federal industrial relations acts.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union

The Queensland Nurses and Midwives' Union, officially the Queensland Nurses and Midwives' Union of Employees, (QNMU) is a trade union that represents nurses and midwives in both the public and private sectors of Queensland, Australia.

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Queensland Shearers Union

The Queensland Shearers Union was one of the first Australian unions, founded in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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Queensland Teachers' Union

The Queensland Teachers' Union is an Australian trade union with a membership of more than 44,000 teachers and principals in the Queensland Government's primary schools, secondary schools, special schools, senior colleges, TAFE colleges and other educational facilities.

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Samuel Griffith

Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919.

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Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association

The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association (SDA) is one of the largest trade unions in Australia with more than 200,000 members and branches in every state and one in the Newcastle, Hunter and Central Coast regions.

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South Brisbane, Queensland

South Brisbane is an inner city suburb of Brisbane, Australia on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, directly connected to the central business district by the Kurilpa, Victoria and Goodwill bridges.

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South East Queensland

South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, political, and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains 3.5 million people out of the state's population of 4.8 million.

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Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) is a trade union in Australia.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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Thomas Glassey

Thomas Glassey (26 February 1844 – 28 September 1936) was an Irish-born Australian politician.

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Thomas McIlwraith

Sir Thomas McIlwraith (17 May 1835 – 17 July 1900) was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland.

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TJ Ryan Foundation

The TJ Ryan Foundation is the only progressive (left-leaning) think tank specifically focussing on Queensland public policy.

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Together (union)

Together is a trade union covering workers in the public and private sectors in the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Transport Workers Union of Australia

The Transport Workers Union of Australia (TWU) is a trade union with over 90,000 members throughout Australia.

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United Voice

United Voice is a large Australian trade union, with over 120,000 members.

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William Lane

William Lane (6 September 1861 – 26 August 1917) was a radical journalist, advocate of Australian labour politics and a utopian.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1890 Australian maritime dispute

The 1890 Australian maritime dispute was an industrial dispute that began on 15 August 1890 when the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association directed its members to give 24 hours' notice to their employers after negotiations broke down with the Steamship Owners' Association of Victoria over longstanding pay and conditions claims.

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1891 Australian shearers' strike

The 1891 shearers' strike is one of Australia's earliest and most important industrial disputes.

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1894 Australian shearers' strike

After the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike both of which were long, drawn out affairs in which trade unions were defeated, running out of funds, actions by increasingly militant and desperate unions led up to perhaps the most violent shearers' strike, in 1894.

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1912 Brisbane general strike

The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland, Australia, began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work on 18 January 1912.

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1948 Queensland railway strike

Confrontation with police during demonstration in support of the strike, Brisbane, 17 March 1948The 1948 Queensland railway strike was a strike which lasted nine weeks, from 3 February to 5 April, 1948, over wages of workers at railway workshops and locomotive depots in Queensland, Australia.

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1998 Australian waterfront dispute

The Australian waterfront dispute of 1998 was an event in Australian industrial relations history, in which the Patrick Corporation undertook a restructuring of their operations for the purpose dismissing their workforce.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Council_of_Unions

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