Australian Services Union. NSW Division records of the Australian Transport Officers Federation NSW Division, 1929-1975

MLMSS 8976

fonds

1929-1975

411338

2.3 metres of textual material (14 boxes)

The Australian Services Union (ASU), formerly: the Australian Transport Officers Federation and registered as: Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union (AMACSU), was formed on July 1, 1993.

The Australian Transport Officers' Federation ATOF (1978-1991) began as the Railway and Tramway Officers' Association registered in New South Wales in 1913. In 1924 that organisation amalgamated with the first federally registered organisation of salaried officers, the Victorian Railways Administrative Officers' and Clerks' Association which was formed in 1921. The name of the amalgamated union was the Federation of Salaried Officers of Railways Commissioners.

In 1947 the name was changed to the more familiar name of the Australasian Transport Officers' Federation and in 1978 it changed its name once more to the Australian Transport Officers' Federation.

In 1991, the N.S.W. Division of the Australian Transport Officers Federation, merged with the Technical Service Guild of Australia and the Municipal Officers' Association of Australia to form the Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community & Information Services Union.

Another amalgamation later in 1993, this time with the Federated Clerks' Union and the Federated Municipal & Shire Council Employees' Union, formed the Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical & Services Union. Following an amalgamation with the Totalisator Employees' Association of Victoria this union was reregistered in 1994.

References:
ASU National. http://www.asu.asn.au/about/history (accessed 31 May 2013)
Australian Trade Union Archives (ATUA). http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0275b.htm (accessed 3 June 2013)

Australian Transport Officers Federation NSW Division files:

BOXES 1-9
Records and correspondence of transport, railway and tramway employee associations and unions relating to administrative matters and industrial issues, awards, wages and salaries and amendments to transport legislation, ca. 1929-1975. Includes NSW Rail and Tramway Association

Legal papers, records and correspondence relating to application for Motor Transport Award, 1955-1958, Department of Transport and Railways appeals board cases, ca. 1952-1970, amendments to transport legislation 1932-1933, and Combined Railway and Tramway Unions, ca. 1936-1955

Printed material Railway and Tramway Officers Gazette, 1928-1929 and the Railway Storeman, 1963-1964

BOXES 10- 13
Conference papers, reports and meeting minutes, ca. 1952-1974.
Includes: Tenth Metropolitan Regional Conference Sydney ATOA, September 1968; State Congress of ATOA, 1967- 1973; Combined Railway, Tramway and Road Transport Unions Committee, ca. 1961-1967; ATOA Executive meetings and regional conference papers, ca. 1956-1974; Biennial federal council meeting 1973; Consultative Committee Department of Government Transport, 1952-1958

BOXES 13-14
Includes some files relating to army, navy and airforce military service during WWII, ca. 1939-1971
Includes:
RAAF and Naval Military Leave 1939-1949 and 1965-1971
Returned Service Personnel Army Navy and Air Force Department of Roads and Transport 1945-1947, Army Navy and Airforce Department of Railways 1945-1950
United States Office of War information circulars 1945
Postwar Reconstruction Advisory Committee, 1944-1945
Articles and papers relating to labour and industrial relations issues, history and politics particularly World War II, ca. 1944-1945
NSW Association Railway Tramway relating to military service, 1939-1945
Publicity Censorship directors during war from Commonwealth, 1942-1944
Application to Federal Court re National Security Economic Regulations by Federal Salaried Officers of Railways Commissioners and NSW Rail And Tramway Association, 1944

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