Collection UQFL662 - Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union Records

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL662

Title

Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union Records

Date(s)

  • 1983-1994 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 box, 1 parcel

Context area

Name of creator

(1952-1999)

Biographical history

Gaynor Alma Cardew was a Canberra-based printmaker, sculptor and cartoonist, who signed her work ‘Gaynor’. She was born in 1952 in Clermont, Central West Queensland and graduated from the Canberra School of Art in 1977. Her cartoons appeared in a range of publications, including union and feminist publications, newspapers and government documents. Several volumes of her own cartoons were also published. She died in 1999, aged 47.

Name of creator

(1993-)

Administrative history

The Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union (AMACSU) trades as the Australian Services Union (ASU). The union exists to defend and advance the rights of its members by protecting their rights at work and achieving better wages and conditions. The union is an amalgamation of several Australian unions and formed as the AMACSU in 1993 (but has been trading as ASU since 1991). In 1991, the Municipal Officers' Association, the Australian Transport Officers' Federation and the Technical Services Guild of Australia amalgamated to form the Australian Municipal, Transport, Energy, Water, Ports, Community & Information Services Union (which traded as the ASU). In 1992, the Australian Social Welfare Union, the West Australian Railway Officers Association and the Australian Shipping and Travel Officers Association amalgamated with the ASU. In 1993, the Federated Clerks' Union and the Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees Union amalgamated with the ASU, creating the union in its present form, as AMACSU. In 2024, the AMACSU's estimated membership is 135000.

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Scope and content

This collection is comprised of two series. Series A is comprised of newsletters, reports, meeting minutes, correspondence and other documents from 1983 to 1994 relating to the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union under the former name of Australian Social Welfare Union and trading name of Australian Services Union. Series B is comprised of original drafts and photocopies of cartoons from the cartoonist Gaynor Alma Cardew. These cartoons were commissioned by the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union under the former name of Municipal Officers' Association of Australia and the trading name of Australian Services Union.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Unrestricted access.

Conditions governing reproduction

In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

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Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

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Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991014638074503131

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Status

Final

Level of detail

Full

Dates of creation revision deletion

Created, KM, 10-Oct-2024.

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