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 Labor Council of New South Wales - Australian Trade Union Archives Peak Union body entry
The Labor Council was formed by six Unions in 1871.
Originally it was called "Trades and Labor Council" because it covered the craft unions or unions of skilled workers as well as the newly emerging unions for bush labourers.
In the 1950s the Labor Council, with the ACTU, led a campaign for equal wages to be paid to women in the workforce.
www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0583b.htm   (488 words)

  
 Labor Council of New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Labor Council of New South Wales is a representative body of Trade union organisations in the State of New South Wales, Australia.
The Labor Council was formed by six Unions in 1871, and originally called the Trades and Labor Council of Sydney.
Ownership of the Sydney Trades Hall was transferred to the Labor Council in 2002, from the original trustees: the Trades Hall Association.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labor_Council_of_New_South_Wales   (280 words)

  
 Chapter 15: The Labor Council of New South Wales and the Ship Painters and Dockers Union
The Labor Council made its annual request for a donation towards the provision of a children’s cot at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and a donation of £1.1.0 was voted by the Union.
In December, a Union meeting donated £3 to the appeal from the Labor Council on behalf of the wives and families of striking Stovemakers, Sheetmetal Workers, Ironworkers and Boilermakers; and defeated a motion from Jack Lannen and H.A.C.Smith, for the Union to withdraw from the Labor Council.
The N SW Labor Council, however, rejected this approach and its campaign inside and outside the Labor Party in New South Wales won the strongest endorsement and, eventually, the referendum in September was defeated.
www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunion15.htm   (19313 words)

  
 Rae Cooper | 'To Organize Wherever the Necessity Exists': the Activities of the Organising Committe of the Labor ...
One of the major lessons learned by New South Wales unions from the experience of the ‘great strikes’ was that unorganised labour posed a threat to successful industrial action and to the survival of unionism.
When the Sydney Labor Council was re-formed in 1900 its members recognised the necessity of reorganising and promoting the growth of state’s unions.
These figures underestimate the union formation activities of the Labor Council as a number of unions that were established by the Organising Committee did not register, amalgamated with an existing union in their industry before registering or in some cases disappeared before seeking registration.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/83/cooper2.html   (10685 words)

  
 Appendix 11: Universal Service League, Boy Conscription, Shipbuilding, Waterside Workers and Loyalists, Seamens' ...
Labor Governments under Hughes in the Federal sphere, and Holman in New South Wales, were held in low regard due to their policies on military conscription of any kind, but particularly in the area of forcing the young into militarist conformism, thinking and attitude towards society generally.
The Labor Council also rejected the 'evils' of the English Whitley scheme of industrial democracy proposed for the railways in 1919 by the Minister for Labour, G.Beeby.
The scheme for industry councils of employer and union representatives at national and workplace level did not extend far outside the public sector in Britain, where it had originated after the report of the Whitley Committee on industrial relations after the War.
www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunionapp11.htm   (3398 words)

  
 Clean Up Corrupt Government in New South Wales
New South Wales has a Ministers code of conduct, which is pursuant to Section 9 of the ICAC Act 1989 The preamble is just wonderfull.
The community knows that decisions of council are political and the law only needs to be followed to allow the decision to be what ever the elected representatives wish.
The letter from Mayor Bell mentions council may have overlooked requirements; I would have thought that overlooking the law was to be avoided.
gosfordcouncil.tripod.com   (993 words)

  
 NSW Office of Industrial Relations: Information for Clothing Industry, Ethical Clothing Trades Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A Council decision is a decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting where a quorum exists.
The report is to include the Council's recommendations as to whether a mandatory code would improve compliance and the suggested content and penalties of such a code.
After considering the Council's report, the Minister may make a code of practice if he considers that the current self-regulatory mechanisms are inadequate to ensure that outworkers receive their lawful entitlements or that persons in the clothing industry are not attempting to improve those self-regulatory mechanisms in good faith.
www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au /behindthelabel/media/factsheets   (773 words)

  
 | Book Review | Labour History, 82 | The History Cooperative
As a study of the Labor Council, the book lacks an adequate introduction to the pre-1946 history and an explanation of the relationship between the Council and the ALP.
Bob Carr began his career as 'a Young Labor right-wing activist employed as an education and publicity officer', whilst Barrie Unsworth was a organiser for the Labor Council (p.
In some ways, too, the history of the Labor Council, as seen through the changes in its leadership, are a microcosm of the labour movement in Australia in the later twentieth century, although the author has not made this point.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/82/br_14.html   (926 words)

  
 Union dumps 'Labor' to improve image. 05/11/2004. ABC News Online
The Labor Council of New South Wales will change its title to Unions New South Wales at the beginning of next year, in a bid to shake off the perception that it is an arm of the Labor Party.
NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson says the change has been driven by a need to disassociate themselves from politicians.
Mr Robertson says the council is not trying to disassociate itself from the Labor Party.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200411/s1235190.htm   (290 words)

  
 ARPA: Inside the machine
It was 1976 and Geoff Cahill, the general secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party, had been on a short overseas trip with his wife.
Dodkin obviously knows her way around the Labor Council and the NSW Branch of the party, and her descriptions of the factional manoeuvring within the Council are convincing.
He was NSW state secretary of the Glassworkers’ Union by the age of thirty, represented his union on the Labor Council, and later became, successively, president, assistant secretary and secretary of the Council from the 1940s through to the 1960s.
www.australianreview.net /digest/2002/04/bongiorno.html   (2451 words)

  
 Australia Day Council New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Let the British tie remain … Labor works to a practical goal and her great concern is the well-being of the whole people.
The Australia and New Zealand Weekly described 26 January, 1959 in Sydney as a march of 12,000 men, women and children through the city to the Botanic Gardens, led by the NSW Mounted Police, the armed services and sporting personalities.
Re-enactments of Phillip's landing continued to be an accepted part of Australia Day ceremonies around the country and it wasn't until the Bicentennial in 1988 that the New South Wales government refused to condone a re-enactment as part of their official proceedings.
www.australiaday.com.au /history.html   (5920 words)

  
 ACTU | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is the largest peak national body representing workers in Australia.
It is a council of 46 affiliated unions representing about 1.8 million workers.
The ACTU's Australian trade union "peak body" precursors include state labour councils like the Victorian Trades Hall Council (originating in 1856 as the 'Melbourne Trades Hall Committee'), the Labor Council of New South Wales (originally formed in 1870 as the 'Sydney Trades and Labor Council') and the Inter-Colonial Trade Union Congress (formed in 1879).
www.babylon.com /definition/ACTU/English   (328 words)

  
 Feb 9 Oakland-Mobilize Multiracial Union Power in a Mass Labor-Centered Protest! : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In this country, the raw exploitation of labor has always come wrapped in the envelope of racial and ethnic-religious hostilities fomented by the capitalist rulers.
Instead of mobilizing union power to defend their members and all the oppressed, the labor tops sell the Democratic Party as the “friend of labor.” But the Democrats, like the Republicans, represent the interests of the class enemy.
On the other side of the Bay Bridge, mayor Willie Brown has launched a new war on the homeless of San Francisco while 16,000 laid-off workers in low-wage industries face homelessness, and those still employed are only a paycheck away from the same fate.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=115229   (1266 words)

  
 Trades & Labor Council of Sydney - Australian Trade Union Archives Peak Union body entry
Trades & Labor Council of Sydney - Australian Trade Union Archives Peak Union body entry
Trades & Labor Council of Sydney (1871 - 1894)
Related Entries for Trades & Labor Council of Sydney
www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0840b.htm   (478 words)

  
 Perspectives - Articles by Eric Lee on the Labour Movement and the Internet [LabourStart]
South Korea: the unions, the Net and the next general strike was written in the wake of the LaborMedia 97 event, and was published in Labour Left Briefing (in the UK).
New Tools for a New International was the title given to my talk to the Euro-FIET IT Forum held in the south of France in October 1997.
In November 1996, The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism was published by Pluto Press (UK).
www.labourstart.org /writings.shtml   (1533 words)

  
 Moait, Sandra - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Since 1976 she has worked in various capacities in the New South Wales Nurses’ Association.
In 2000 she was elected president of the Labor Council of New South Wales.
President of the Labor Council of New South Wales
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P004299b.htm   (193 words)

  
 Europe - Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The New South Wales state launch was carried out by Mrs Mary Moodie
The native trout of Wales is the brown trout.
Hades in Cathays Cemetery South Wales 1990 with spectral boy.
www.yqeurope.com /wales   (2523 words)

  
 LaborNET
Following the dissolution of the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) tomorrow morning, the largest trade union international will hold its own Dissolution Congress.
This will be followed on Wednesday, November 1, by the Founding Congress of the new trade union international: the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC.
The ANZ is harvesting billions of dollars from Australian consumers, while it continues to send Australian jobs offshore, the Finance Sector Union said today.
www.labor.org.au   (354 words)

  
 Amazon.com: In case of oppression: The life and times of the Labor Council of New South Wales: Books: Ray Markey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Amazon.com: In case of oppression: The life and times of the Labor Council of New South Wales: Books: Ray Markey
In case of oppression: The life and times of the Labor Council of New South Wales (Unknown Binding)
Publisher: Lloyd Ross Forum of the Labour Council of New South Wales (1994)
www.amazon.com /case-oppression-Labor-Council-Wales/dp/1864030054   (359 words)

  
 XPDNC - Trade Union Training Links
Trade union school program for leaders, advisors, and other trade unionists at the local, regional and council level.
These law enforcement officers provide training regarding the handling of labor disputes in an impartial and professional manner.
Advancing knowledge and conduct of labor relations, grievance handling and labor arbitration through labor management training.
www.xpdnc.com /links/training.html   (894 words)

  
 ACTU: Union and Labor Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
South Africa - Congress Of South African Trade Unions - COSATU
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions - NZCTU
Australian Council of Trade Unions - Worksite for Students
www.actu.asn.au /public/links   (799 words)

  
 Pandora Archive : Annual report (Labor Council of New South Wales)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Annual report (Labor Council of New South Wales)
It is continued by Annual report (Unions NSW).The publisher's site may provide more information.
Please send your comments and suggestions about sites archived by the State Library of New South Wales to pandora@sl.nsw.gov.au
pandora.nla.gov.au /tep/25110   (144 words)

  
 XPDNC - Australia Council Links
Comprised of 21 affiliate member organisations covering nearly all areas of employment
United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia
Unions working together to achieve a just, fair and democratic society
www.xpdnc.com /links/cnclau.html   (262 words)

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