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Western Australians and determine strategies to improve them. The offices of UnionsWA are located at Level 4, 445 Hay Street,
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Workers Embassy, in the form of a caravan, was set up on the grounds of Parliament House during the protest. Following the arrest of four union officials for remaining on the premises, the Workers Embassy was relocated to a site across the street. Unions occupied the site for 24 hours a day over
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Non-affiliated unions and union representatives who were not ALP members, however, were excluded from a
Special Congress of Unions convened in Perth on November 23, 1959. During this congress, a vote was held regarding any structural changes, resulting in 555 against and 206 in favor. However, some
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Western Australian unions and the WA branches of federal unions regarding the anomalous situation for the representation of state unions within the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). The ACTU’s Federal Executive faced mounting pressure to
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Council, Perth was formed in 1891 and operated as such until 1907 when it re-emerged as the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Labour Federation. Twenty years later, in 1927, it was operating as the Australian Labor Party (WA). It continued in this guise for another
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Special Affiliated Union Conference passed a motion for the Special General Council to establish a committee. This committee would examine the process of setting up a separate industrial organization. The goal was to structure this organisation to meet the ACTU’s requirements, ensuring
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General Secretary of the Western Workers’ Federation (WWF), proposed that the WA Branch of the ACTU adhere fully to “the democratic principles of affiliation” followed by the ACTU and its other five branches. Healy advocated for making affiliation open to
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Western Australia’s industrial relations landscape, including a shift towards individual workplace agreements and a reduction in union influence. On 29 April 1997, the Trades & Labor Council under the leadership of Tony Cooke, organised an
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Australia’s ACTU affiliation was up for renewal. The ACTU Federal Executive hinted that it might withhold re-affiliation unless an independent Trades and Labor Council (TLC) was established as the state’s affiliated body.
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Solidarity Park contains the largest concentration of labour monuments in Western Australia. The Wall of Remembrance at the park commemorates all killed and injured workers. The Mark Allen Memorial, named in honour of a young
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twenty years when, in 1947, the name was changed once more, this time to the Trade Unions Industrial Council (ALP, WA) to more accurately delineate its trade union role from the political motives of the labour movement.
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organiser who was killed on a building site while attempting to get workers down from an unsafe roof, features a triple 8 to symbolise the labour movement's historic struggle for the
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