The Communication Workers Union of Australia is a trade union in Australia. It is a division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia.
Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, Communications Division | |
| Communications Workers Union of Australia | |
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| Founded | 1912 |
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| Headquarters | Melbourne, Sydney, Perth |
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Key people | Shane Murphy, Divisional President Greg Rayner, Divisional Secretary |
Parent organization | Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU) |
| Affiliations | ACTU, Australian Labor Party |
| Website | www www cwuwa |
It was formed in 1992 as a standalone Union following the merger of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association/Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers Association. At the time of the merger the union had a membership of approximately 85,000.[1]: 36 In 1993 it absorbed the Telecommunications Officers Association (TOA). The CWU amalgamated with the ETU and PPTEU to form the CEPU in 1994, thereafter becoming a division of the larger union. The three CEPU Divisions largely operate autonomously, as separate entities, on a day to day basis.[2]
References
edit- ^ Bolton, Brian (1993). Telecommunications Services: Negotiating Structural and Technological Change. Geneva: International Labour Organisation. ISBN 92-2-108263-6.
- ^ "Communication Workers Union of Australia (ii) (1993 - 1994)". Australian Trade Union Archives. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
