Australian Workers' Union
The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the late 1880s and it currently has approximately 80,000 members. It has exercised an outsized influence on the Australian Trade Union movement and on the Australian Labor Party throughout its history.
The Australian Workers' Union | |
| Founded | 1886 |
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| Founded at | Ballarat, Victoria |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales |
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Members | 72,194 (as at 31 December 2022) |
Key people | Paul Farrow, National Secretary |
| Affiliations | ACTU, ALP, ITF, IUF, IndustriALL |
| Website | AWU |
| known as AWU-FIMEE Amalgamated Union 1993-1995 | |
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| Organised labour |
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The AWU is one of the most powerful unions in the Labor Right faction of the Australian Labor Party.
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