AIDS Council of NSW Trade Union Working Party correspondence, reports, health and safety bulletins, 1985-1988

MLMSS 9964/Box 1X

fonds

1985-1988

1009384

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - typescript, printed, manuscript

Following industrial disputes over the issue of HIV/AIDS in 1984, a Trade Union Working Party on Aids was formed. The objective was to educate the Trade Union Movement and officials about the complex issues involved such as Occupational Health and Safety and discrimination. Some activities undertaken by the Working Party includes workshops 1984-1986, input into the development of the NSW Labor Council and ACTU policies on AIDS and the development of the ACTU-VTHC Health and Safety Bulletin No. 45 Information Paper on AIDS, the first publication on AIDS by a Labour organisation in the world. When the AIDS Council of NSW formed in 1995, the Working Party operated as part of the ACON. The HIV/AIDS Community Development Project was a program initiated by Pride, and commenced 3 July 1995
References:
Compiled from the collection
Library correspondence file

Papers include minutes of meetings mainly relating to development of policy on AIDS; reports of the Working Party to The AIDS Council of New South Wales (ACON); mailout lists; papers delivered including ‘The Union approach to Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)’ 1985; information papers on AIDS including the ACTU-VTHC Health and Safety Bulletin No. 45 Information Paper on AIDS; guidelines for personnel management; Agreement between the Labor Council of N.S.W. and the N.S.W. Department of Health

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