List of Australian unions
The list of Australian trade unions is not intended to be exhaustive. There are around 300 unions in Australia and a large proportion of the workers are unionized. There is an umbrella organization of the Australian trade unions in which 48 unions are members, the Australian Council of Trade Unions .
The Australian unions came into being in the 1850s through the influence of convicts and workers from England who came to the Australian convict colony and were organized into unions in their mother country. In the great strike movements in Australia's first economic crisis in the early 1890s, the unions were defeated, and the Australian Labor Party emerged from the labor movement in 1891. Despite these defeats, the labor movement succeeded in establishing a system of conflict settlement between labor and capital in 1904 to install the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration , which in principle still exists today with different names.
A split in the labor movement arose in the Australian coal mine strike of 1949 , when the ruling Labor Party of Ben Chifley put down this strike by using the military, because they suspected the Communist Party of Australia , which at the time was very strongly anchored in the union, was behind it . In the election that followed in 1949, the Labor government was voted out of office. Subsequently, a group of parliamentarians from the Labor Party split off in April 1955 and founded the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) , which subsequently hindered the Australian Labor Party from participating in government and later renamed itself the Democratic Labor Party in 1957 .
When in 2006 the Australian system of arbitration for employment relationships on a legal basis was changed by the liberalist-nationalist coalition government of John Howard to the disadvantage of the workers into freely negotiable employment relationships, the so-called WorkChoices - despite violent protests by the unions, the election in November 2007 went to Kevin Rudd like a landslide lost by the Labor Party , which subsequently repealed the Howard government's statutory WorkChoices .
A.
- AAFL Players Association
- Amalgamated Society of Engineers (Australia)
- Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia
- Australian Federation of Air Pilots
- Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union
- Australian and International Pilots Association
- Australian Council of Trade Unions
- Australian Education Union
- Australian Federal Police Association
- Australian Federation of Air Pilots
- Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers
- Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association
- Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
- Australian Maritime Officers Union
- Australian Nursing Federation
- Australian Professional Footballers' Association
- Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union
- Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation
- Australian Services Union
- Australian Workers' Union
- Australian Writers' Guild
B.
- Blind Workers' Union of Victoria
- Breweries & Bottleyards Employees Industrial Union of Workers WA
- Builders Laborers Federation
C.
- Civil Air Operations Officers' Association of Australia
- Club Managers' Association Australia
- Communication Workers Union of Australia
- Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia
- Community and Public Sector Union
- Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
E.
- Electrical Trades Union of Australia
F.
- Federated Marine Stewards' and Pantrymen's Association of Australasia
- Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union
- Finance Sector Union
- Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales
- Flight Attendants' Association of Australia
- Funeral And Allied Industries Union Of New South Wales
H
- Health and Community Services Union
- Health Services Union
- Health Services Union NSW
I.
- Independent Education Union of Australia
K
- Knights of Labor
L.
- List of unregistered Australian unions
M.
- Maritime Union of Australia
- Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
- Medical Scientists Association of Victoria
N
- National Tertiary Education Union
- National Union of Workers
- New South Wales Nurses' Association
- New South Wales Police Association
- New South Wales Teachers Federation
P
- Permanent & Casual Wharf Laborers Union of Australia
- Plumbing Trades Employees Union
- Police Association Victoria
- Police Federation of Australia
- Professional Footballers Australia
- Public Service Association of NSW
Q
- Queensland Nurses' Union
- Queensland Public Sector Union
- Queensland Teachers Union
R.
- Rugby League Professionals Association
S.
- Scarlet Alliance
- Shearers and Rural Workers' Union
- Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association
- State Public Services Federation
- State School Teachers Union of Western Australia
T
- Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia
- Trade unions in Christmas Island
- Transport Workers Union of Australia
- Transport Workers' Union
U
- Union of Christmas Island Workers
- Unite Union (Australia)
- United Firefighters Union of Australia
- United Services Union
- United Voice
V
- Victorian Secondary Teachers Association
- Victorian Trades Hall
W.
- Western Australian Prison Officers Union of Workers
- Woolclassers' Association of Australia