Collection UQFL427 - Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, Queensland Branch Records

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL427

Title

Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, Queensland Branch Records

Date(s)

  • 1899-1997 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

215 boxes (Offsite Storage)

Context area

Name of creator

Administrative history

The Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, originally called the Australasian Federated Butchers Employees' Union, was formed in 1905 from a number of smaller organisations, including the Brisbane Butchers Employes' Union Covering skilled and unskilled workers in all sectors of the Australian meat processing industry, the AMIEU became one of Australia's most powerful industrial unions In Queensland it was involved in many bitter disputes, including the Townsville meatworkers' strike of 1918-19 and the 1946 meat industry strike.
Objectives - To uphold the rights of organization of labour and to improve, protect and foster the best interests of its members; to improve their cultural and living standards; to protect the interests of workers in the regulation of conditions and labour; to secure socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange; to promote industrial peace and settle disputes; to combine with other unions and organizations with similar objectives; to assist in establishment of labor newspapers and broadcasting and television stations and to maintain a union journal; to provide benefits for members.

Archival history

Collection previously titled as: Records, 1899-1997
Collection alternatively titled as: Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union Queensland Branch Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Records of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union (Queensland Branch) and its predecessor organisations, and arbitration court records relating to cases involving the AMIEU.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

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Conditions governing access

Unrestricted access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright applies.

Language of material

  • English

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Finding aids

Uploaded finding aid

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Publication note

Material from this collection has been cited in:

Freya Willis (2022) ‘"Don't be too polite girls": Gender hierarchies and women's leadership in the meatworkers' union in the 1970s’, Labour history (Canberra), (123):149–178.

Jerrard M (2022) ‘Union Industrial Responses to Escalation in Live Cattle Export in Brisbane, 1978’, Labour history (Canberra), 122(122):51–75, doi:10.3828/jlh.2022.1.

Notes area

Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991009429959703131

Alma Local System Number

(AuBrU)b22772297-61uq_inst

Millennium Local System Number

b22772297

Libraries Australia ID

63050179; 41587905

OCLC Number

1058519402

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Status

Migrated

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.
Revised 03/11/2023, JR.

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