Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
| Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) |
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| purpose | labor union |
| Chair: | John Sutton |
| Establishment date: | 1992 |
| Number of members: | 120,000 (2011) |
| Seat : | Sydney |
| Website: | http://www.cfmeu.net.au |
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) (German: Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Workers Union ) is an Australian union in the fields of construction , mining , energy , forestry and wood . It has 120,000 members and has branches in all the capital cities of the Australian states, employs 400 people and is divided into three divisions, the Construction and General Division , Mining and Energy Division and Forestry and Furnishing Products Division , with each division operating independently.
The founding of this Australian union goes back essentially to a congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in 1989, at which the future of the Australian unions was discussed.
history
Construction and General Division
The Construction and General Division was formed in the early 1990s as the national trade union CFMEU. Its origins go back to the fact that various unions active in the construction industry sought to form a union: This was above all the Operative Painters and Decorators Union (OPDU), which came into being in the 1920s, and the Building Workers Industrial Union (BWIU), which itself was the product of several mergers between 1946 and 1992. The BWIU was originally made up of trade unions in the craft sector, such as bricklayers , carpenters , pavers , tilers , stonemasons and other construction professions. The traditional professions were supplemented in the late 1980s by the concrete and reinforced concrete workers and metal workers in the construction industry, which were organized and merged in the Builders Laborers Federation (BLF). The Construction and Generals Division also has members in shopfitting, joinery and pre-fabricating factories for building, brick , tile, and potteries in Queensland .
Forestry and Furnishing Products Division
The Forestry and Furnishing Products Division organizes the forest and woodworkers and carpenters; it was founded as a nationwide union in 1907 as the Federated Sawmill, Timber-yard and Woodworkers Employees Association of Australasia . In 1913 the name was changed to Amalgamated Timber Workers Union of Australia and in 1918 to Australian Timber Workers Union . In 1990 there was a vote between the members of the Australian Timber Workers Union and the Pulp and Paper Workers Federation of Australia to merge the two unions to form the Australian Timber and Allied Industries Union . Another mid-1991 vote to merge the Australian Timber and Allied Industries Union and the Building Workers Industrial Union resulted in today's Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union .
Mining and Energy Division
The Mining and Energy Division is part of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (ACSEF), which was founded in 1916 and whose predecessor organizations have existed since the 1850s. This division was created through several mergers, mainly at the initiative of the Miners' Federation .
The Mining and Energy Division includes workers in coal mining, coal ports, metalliferous mining, power generation, oil and gas exploration, and the coke-making industries.
politics
In 2001, the Conservative government initiated John Howard of the Liberal Party of Australia , the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry in Australia ( Cole Royal Commission called), the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens rejected as this Commission had in their opinion more goal to weaken the union than to expose irregularities.
According to the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005, this commission became the Commission into the Building and Construction Industry , which can order surveys and impose fines.
In the protest movement against the Howard government from 2005, which restricted the rights of the trade unions with the introduction of the so-called WorkChoices , the CFMEU was not heavily involved, as its members were concerned about their jobs.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Trade Union Archives : Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union (ii) (1993 -) (English), accessed March 8, 2011
- ^ Australian Trade Union Archives : Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia (1915-1918 ), accessed March 8, 2011
- ^ Australian Trade Union Archives : Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia (ii) (1962-1991) (English), accessed March 8, 2011
- ^ Australian Trade Union Archives : Australian Timber Workers Union (1918-1991 ), accessed March 8, 2011
- ^ Australian Trade Union Archives : Australasian Coal & Shale Employees Federation (1916-1990) (English), accessed March 8, 2011
- ↑ Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner : Website , accessed March 8, 2011
- ↑ Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : David Hardaker: Investigation into building industry corruption to release findings of May 14, 2001, accessed on March 8, 2011
