National Union of Workers

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NUW

National Union of Workers
Founded	1989
Members	90,000
Country	Australia
Affiliation	ACTU
Key people	Charlie Donnelly, general secretary
Office location	Melbourne, Victoria
Website	www.nuw.org.au

The National Union of Workers (NUW) is a large Australian trade union.

The union was formed by a progressive amalgamation of unions from 1989 onwards in a time when all Australian unions were merging, with varying degrees of success. These unions merged into the one larger union in order to pool together their expertise and resources, so they could provide members with a larger range of quality services.

The six unions which form the NUW were established in the early part of last century and have been at the forefront of workers' achievements for nearly 100 years:

• Federated Storemen and Packers Union (Est. 1912)
• Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union (Est. 1908)
• Federated Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Employees' Union (Est. 1908)
• Federated Millers and Manufacturing Grocers Union (Est. 1909)
• Commonwealth Foremen's Association (Est. 1912)
• United Sales Representatives and Commercial Travellers Guild (Est. 1888)

[edit] Coverage

The National Union of Workers covers workers in the following industries:

• Warehousing and distribution
• Food manufacturing
• Rubber, plastic and cable-making
• Dairy
• Cold storage
• Poultry, fish and game processing
• Skin and hide
• Wool
• Oil
• Pet food
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Milling
• Market research
• Merchandising and sales representatives

There are rumours that the union will merge with the Australian Workers Union. At this stage this rumour has not been substantiated.

[edit] External links

• Official website

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