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Equal Pay

Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)

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N68/265 – Equal pay, 1968-1969

N68/266A – Equal pay – Female Rates Case, 1968-1969

N68/266B - Equal Pay - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Conference, 1972

N68/471 - National Equal Pay Week, 1959

N68/895 – Equal pay press cuttings, 1979

N68/1303-1322 – Industrial Advocate R.J. Hawke’s Equal Pay Case working papers, 1948-1969

N68/1323 - Australian Trade Union Policy on Equal Pay and Equal Status 1941: ACTU Takes Action, The Worker Trustee, Sydney, 1941

N68/1325 - Why? Why? Why? Women Workers Should Receive Equal Pay, AMIEU, Brisbane, 1958

N68/1329 - Equal Work - Equal Pay: Social Justice for Women, Equal Pay Committee of the Labor Council of NSW, Sydney, c. 1950s 

N58/173 – Equal pay press cuttings, 1972-1973

N58/174 – Equal pay press cuttings, 1973-1974

N58/17– Equal pay press cuttings, 1975-1977

N58/625 – Equal pay press cuttings, 1978-1979

N21/241 - Report on 'Equal Pay for the Sexes: Survey on Women's Wages' by Muriel Heagney for ACTU, 1948

N21/735 – Equal pay, 1958

N21/736 – Equal Pay Conference – agenda items, 1958

N21/737 – Equal Pay Conference – delegates, 1958

N21/738 – Equal Pay Conference – observers, 1958

N21/739 – Equal Pay Conference – miscellaneous, 1958

N21/740 – Equal Pay Conference, 1958-1959

N21/1207 – Equal pay, 1959-1962

N21/1208 – Equal pay, 1951-1960

N21/1209 – Equal pay, 1960-1962

N21/1210 – Equal pay, 1961-1963

N21/1211 – Equal pay, 1961-1965

N21/1212 – Equal pay, 1966-1972

N21/1213 – Equal pay, 1965-1969

N21/1214 – Equal pay, 1967-1970

N21/1215 – Equal pay, 1968-1970

N21/1216 – Equal pay, 1966-1970

N21/1217 – Equal pay, 1968-1974

N21/1218 – Equal pay, 1970-1973

N21/1219 – Equal pay – airline industry, 1973  

N21-2389 - Equal Pay - speaker's notes presenting ACTU submission for 1968 and 1969 National Wage case and Equal Pay cases, 1968 - 1969

N21/2390 - Equal Pay - union exhibits - Workforce statistics, 1969

N21-2391 - Equal Pay - union exhibits - Population and Workforce statistics, 1966

N21-2392 - Equal Pay - union exhibits - International Workforce by Occupational Status statistics, 1969

N21-2393 - Equal Pay - union exhibits - Australian population by occupation, 1966

N21-2394 - Equal Pay - union exhibits - Australian population by occupation, 1966

N21-2395 - Equal Pay - union exhibits - Australian civilian workforce by occupation and type of employer, 1966

N21-2396 - Equal Pay - union exhibits - Proportion of wage and salary earners who are trade union members, 1966

N21-2397 - Equal Pay - union exhibits, 1960s

N21-2398 - Equal Pay - transcripts and judgements, 1969-1970

N21-2399 - Equal Pay - miscellaneous papers, 1952-1974

N21-2400 - Equal Pay – applications, 1972

N21-2401 - Equal Pay - miscellaneous papers, 1948-1971

N21-2402 - Equal Pay - miscellaneous papers, 1915-1972

N21-2403 - Equal Pay - miscellaneous papers including international material, 1971-1972

N21-2404 - Equal Pay - speaker's notes for presentation of ACTU submission to 1972 Equal Pay case, 1972

N21-2405 - Equal Pay - Advocate (R Willis) notes, 1972

N21-2406 - Equal Pay – decisions, 1968-1972

N21/2588 – Publicity Officer – National Wage Case – equal pay, 1972-1973

N147/249 – ACTU Equal Pay Committee, 1969-1972

N147/503 - ACTU - Committees and Groups - Vol 9 - Committees - Social Welfare; Technological Change; Wages & Working Conditions; Women, 1981-1982

N147/510 - Equal Pay Case 1969: Exhibits - Commonwealth Government and Commonwealth Public Service Board, 1969

Education unions

Australian Education Union

Z219/Box 202 – Equal pay, 1985

 

New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation

T15/6 – Minutes of meetings of the Equal Pay Committee, 1955-1957

T15/14/18 – Equal pay – speakers’ notes, c. 1930s-1940s

 

New South Wales Teachers’ Federation

E210/15-176 – Circulars (including equal pay), 1953-1965

N111/E21 – Equal pay and opportunity - general papers, pamphlets, leaflets, cases, campaign material, recommendations, 1940-1973

N111/973-984 – Equal pay and opportunity cases, judgements and papers, 1947-1963

Z327/Box 175 – Equal pay: Elizabeth Mattick Industrial Officer, 1960-1963; Equal pay, 1980   

T15-6 - Minutes of meetings of the Equal Pay Committee, 1955-1957

T15-14-18 - Equal pay – speaker’s notes, c. 1930s-1940s

 

South Australian Institute of Teachers

N91/336 – Equal pay, 1960-1970

N91/337 – Equal Pay Council, 1966-1971

Metal workers' unions

Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union South Australian State Council

N131/375 – Campaigns and issues – improved wages and conditions – equal pay, 1968-1974

N131/376 - Campaigns and issues - improved wages and conditions - equal pay Commonwealth Conciliation & Arbitration - C.No 531 of 1969 Equal Pay Cases, 1969

 

Federated Ironworkers’ Association

N14/84/1-2 – Equal pay (Includes reports from international bodies), 1956-1969

N14/84A/1-8 – Equal pay / rates for female workers, 1969-1970

N14/126 – ACTU, FIA and other union meetings minutes – Equal pay, women’s wages and conditions, 1941

N14/138 – Equal pay, 1957

N14/140 – Equal Pay Conference, 1959

N14/141 – Equal pay, 1960

N14/145 – Equal Pay Conference, 1964

N14/254 – Equal pay applications, 1969-1971

E218/20 – Reports – Council of Action for Equal Pay, 1941-1942

E219/21 – Minutes of Australasian CTU – Conferences re equal pay, April and August 1941

E218/593 – Equal pay – radio talks, newspaper cuttings, minutes of ACTU conference, 1956

 

Federated Ironworkers’ Association Victorian Branch

E247/35 – ACTU equal pay circulars, notes and minutes; National Equal Pay Conferences in Melbourne and Canberra, 1956-1967

E247/199 – Equal pay circulars, notices of meetings and notes, 1959-1967

 

Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch and Federal Council (papers of Tom Wright)

E206/60 (K2953) – Photograph of people holding equal pay sign, no date

 

Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch

E245/5 - Australian Council of Trade Unions and Australian Council of Trade Unions Building Ltd financial statements and balance sheets and papers relating to the Equal Pay Committee, 1956-1967

E245/21 - Equal pay Includes New South Wales Industrial Arbitration (Female Rates) Amendment Act 1958, Equal Pay case 1959, Female Rates case 1969, A. Amos' notes on Labour Council of New South Wales Equal Pay Committee, Australian Council of Trade Unions Equal Pay Conferences, United Nations and International Labour Office material, 1957-1969

Maritime Unions

Marine Cooks, Bakers and Butchers’ Association of Australasia, Federal Office

N61/317 – Equal pay cases, 1969

 

Maritime Industry Australia

N308/2005 - Subject files - Seagoing Employees - National Wage Case / Equal pay case - C Nos. 1875, 1897, 1907 and 1908 of 1971, 1972

N308/2744 - Subject files - Australian Shipping Officers Association (ASOA) - Shipping Officers Award, 1973 - Application to vary wage rates and working conditions, salaries, equal pay, loading on annual leave and preference of employment - C No. 2985 of 1974

N380/2820 - Subject files - General - Equal pay cases 1969 - C Nos. 412, 2157, 2158, 2159, 2160, 2161, 2162, 2163and 2164 of 1968; 894 of 1969

 

Seamen’s Union of Australia Federal Office and Sydney Branch

E183/21/16 – Report of the Australian delegate to the World Trade Union Conference (including Equal Pay Committee Report), 1945

E183/183 – Australian trade union policy on equal pay and equal status, Council of Action for Equal Pay, 1941

E183/348 – National Equal Pay Week, Metal Trades Federation New South Wales Branch, 1966

 

Waterside Workers’ Federation Federal Office

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N114/569 - ACTU - Miscellaneous - Wages/Economy: National Wage Cases 1968-74; Equal pay - nursing aides; Female rate case 1969; ACTU decision 21 Aug 1973 re Public Service Board's salary proposal; Cameron proposition; Discrimination; Various material on unemployment, 1968-1975

E250/17 – Equal pay, 1951-1961

Manufacturing Unions

Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation Federal Office 

N41/86 – Equal pay, 1963

 

Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union National Office

Z102/Box 240 – Statement of evidence submitted to the UK Royal Commission on Equal Pay by the British Employers’ Federation, 1944-1945

Z102/Boxes 416 & 417 - Metal Trades Award, Equal Pay Case – C No. 531 of 1969, applications by ETU and others to vary re wage rates for females Clause 4, and also C No. 172 of 1970, MTEA appeal re female wage rates: transcript. (3 vols), 1969

Z102/Box 696 – ACTU 1972 National Wage Case – Equal Pay Test Case decision, 1965-1966

Z102/Box 1040 - Equal Pay – 1938–1965: includes reports, wage surveys and report entitled “Claim for equal occupational rates from women replacing men in wartime” by the Federated Rubber Workers Union of Australia, 1982

Z102/ Boxes 1057-1060 – Equal remuneration case AMWU v HPM, 1994-1998

 

Clothing and Allied Trades Union South Australian Branch 

N15/83-88 - Equal Pay for Women Campaign: circulars, duplicated minutes and Proceedings of meetings re industrial tribunals, select documents and other papers, 1957-1963

E193/15/5 - National Conference on Equal Pay convened by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sydney, March 1958 - Agenda paper

E193/36/12 - Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration - Statement and Reasons for Decision in Equal Pay Case, 1969

 

Clothing and Allied Trades Union Federal Office and Branches

E138/13 – Miscellaneous documents including papers re equal pay, 1920s

E138/20/E2 - Council of Action for Equal Pay, no date

E138/58 – Pamphlets and correspondence re equal pay, 1940-1942

E138/82 – New South Wales Council of Action for Equal Pay correspondence and circulars, 1937-1938

E138/100 - Council of Action for Equal Pay papers and correspondence, c. 1930s

E138/107 - Council of Action for Equal Pay correspondence, 1938-1939

N84/393 – Papers concerning variation case re equal pay, 1970

N84/394 - Papers concerning variation case re equal pay – application to vary, 1970

N84/395 - Papers concerning variation case re equal pay – decisions, 1970

N84/417 – Proposed classification structure for equal pay, 1974

N84/418 – Correspondence and application to vary equal pay, 1974

N84/419 – Variation case transcript re equal pay, 1974

N84/512 – Equal Pay Case evidence, 1937-1943

N84/513 – Papers re equal pay legislation and campaigns, 1956-1961

N84/514 – Equal pay cases – various case decisions and working papers, 1969

 

Federated Felt Hatting and Allied Trades Employees' Union of Australia, Federal Council

N372/53 - Published rulings of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission regarding variations to the Felt Hatting Award (including Equal Pay for Females 1970), 1914-1982

 

Federated Furnishing Trade Society South Australian Branch

N98/94 – Equal pay documents, 1960-1969

 

Federated Millers’ and Mill Employees’ Association of Australasia

N247/40 – Material relating to the Equal Pay Committee, 1956-1960

 

Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia

Z639/Box 60 – Equal pay – some aspects of the Australian and overseas practice, 1972-2003

Printing Unions

Printing and Kindred Industries Union Federal Office 

N69/280 – ACTU Equal Pay Conference, 1956

N69/284 – ACTU – Equal pay, 1958-1961

N69/285 – ACTU Equal Pay Conference, 1958

N69/291 – ACTU – Equal pay, 1959-1968

N69/295 – ACTU – Equal pay, 1961

N69/302 – ACTU Equal Pay Conference, 1963

N69/304 - ACTU Equal Pay Conference ACT, 1964

N69/314 – ACTU – Equal pay, 1968

N69/327 – ACTU Equal Pay Committee, 1971-1972

N69/576 – Equal pay case, no date

N69/577 – Equal pay case – judgements, 1969-1973

N69/578 – Equal pay case – exhibits and court presentations, 1971-1974

N69/579 – Equal pay case – matters, no date

N69/744 – National wage and equal pay case – correspondence with ACTU, union circulars and branch information, c. 1970s

N69/745 – National wage and equal pay case – exhibits presented by ACTU, c. 1970s

N69/875 - Public Service Act - variations for shift penalty rates, holiday penalties, and variations consequent upon equal pay, c. 1930s

N69/1563 - Country Printing Award - Equal pay variation C No 2165/74, c. 1970s

N69/1975 - Graphic Arts Award - Application to vary re - female wage rates - equal pay C No 588/69, c. 1969

N69/2085 - Graphic Arts Award - Application for equal pay (1) by ACTU for Boot Trade (2) by FCU, no date

N69/2117 - Graphic Arts Award - Application to vary re equal pay (2 files) C No 3538/73, no date

N69/2143 - Graphic Arts Award - Equal Pay, no date

N69/2227 - Ink Making Negotiations - negotiations re equal pay for females, 1976

N69/2548 - Pulp & Paper Industry (Production) Award: Equal Pay Negotiations, 1973

N69/2555 - Pulp & Paper Industry (Production) Award: Variation Equal Pay C No 2631/74, 1974

N69/2632 - Qantas Airways (Printing) Agreement: Application to Vary re Equal Pay C No 2268/74, 1974

N69/2651 - TAA Printing Agreement: Agreement Negotiations - (1) Application of Equal Pay (2) Application of National Wage Case 1974, 1972-1973

N69/2828 - K.D. Courtney et.al.: Equal pay and the family, London, Headley Brothers, no date

Z482/Box 24 – Equal pay, 1974  

Other Trade Unions and Professional Associations

Administrative and Clerical Officers Association Federal Executive

E257/364 – Equal pay (female employment), 1971-1976

A12/2/343 – Equal pay for equal work, 1923-1948

E228/373-375 – Female employment – equal pay, 1962-1970

E182/25 – Equal pay claims – transcripts, determinations, correspondence and ancillary material, 1967-1970 

 

Armed Forces Federation of Australia

N174/119 – EEO and Equal pay – discrimination, 1994-2002

N174/279 – EEO and Equal pay, 1985-1994

 

Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia, ACT Branch

E160/4/M1 - Miscellaneous correspondence, logs of claims, notes of conferences on equal pay and personnel administration and reports, 1963-1965

 

Australian Council of Salaried Professional Associations Victorian Division

N23/44 - "ACSPA Endeavours"; activities re equal pay, wages/salaries campaigns, Margins cases, five-day week, annual leave, 1962

N23/49 - Minutes of ACSPA NSW, Qld, Vic and Federal Executive meetings, SA Equal Pay Council, 1960-1974

N23/54 - ACSPA Press Releases and Circulars; Minutes of ACSPA Victorian Division; and of SA Equal Pay Council; correspondence re AISF delegates to ACSIA, and affiliation fees; National Schools of Industrial and Labour Studies, 1969-1972

 

Australian Federation of Medical Women

N240/9 - Minutes (miscellaneous) and newsletters of the Australian Federation of Medical Women (including Equal Pay Council), 1963-1970

 

Australian Hairdressers Wigmakers and Hairworkers Employees' Union, South Australian Branch

E114/7/43 - How to achieve equal pay, United Associations of Women, c. 1940s

 

Australian Hotels Association New South Wales Branch

Z195/Box 48 – Equal Pay Case, 1969-1970

 

Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation South Australian Branch

E145/41/3 - Equal pay: a white-collar problem. Sydney: Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, 1961

E145/43 - Pamphlets and other material relating to Margins Campaign, Equal Pay Campaign and Youth Movement, mostly published by Australian Council of Salaried Professional Associations, 1962-1965

E155/32 – ACSPA Victorian Equal Pay Committee letters, 1961

E155/35 – ACSPA correspondence, circulars and papers – equal pay, 1958-1961

 

Australian Railways Union Tasmanian Branch

Z292/20 – Equal pay, 1966-1977

 

Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation Wonthaggi Branch

E164/28 - Australian Council of Trade Unions circulars, bulletins, minutes of Equal Pay Conference, Congress report and Executive decisions, 1954-1966

 

Building Workers’ Industrial Union Federal Office

Z285/Box 118 – Equal Pay Conference, March 1964

 

Commonwealth Bank Officers’ Association

E146/89/20 - Equal pay: a white-collar problem. Sydney: Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, 1961

 

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Officers’ Association Equal Pay Committee

N43 – This deposit contains office files, rough minutes, printed material and press cuttings of the CSIRO Equal Pay Committee, 1948-1971.

 

Federated Coopers of Australia Victorian Branch

T30/48/8 - Leaflets by Oscar Schreiber, president of the Trade Union Secretaries' Association, 1930s 

 

Federated Fodder and Fuel Trades Industrial Union of Australia, Victorian Branch

E188/10 - Equal pay campaign - correspondence and circulars, notes, news cuttings and other papers, 1967

 

Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union Federal Council

Z531/486 – Equal pay transcript, 1969

Z531/777 – Equal pay appeal 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970

 

Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union Federal Office

Z370/Box 20 – Watchmen, Caretakers, Cleaners, Lift Drivers (ACT) Award – Commissioner Lyttleton’s decision re equal pay, 1974

Z370/Box 41 – Saddlery, Leather & Canvas Workers Award – phasing in of equal pay, 1974-1975

Z370/Box 118 – National Equal Pay Week reports etc., 1960-1964

Z397/Box 11 – Equal pay surveys, 1968-1972

Z397/Box 21 – Equal pay, 1971-1985

Z397/Box 43 – Metal Trades Award Equal Pay Decision, 1970

Z397/Box 117 – Equal pay – background material, 1963-1970

 

Livestock and Grain Producers’ Association of New South Wales

N92/976 – Industrial – general – equal pay, 1958-1970

 

Municipal Officers’ Association of Australia

Z298/Box 30 – Equal pay, June 1969

Z298/Box 34 – Brisbane City Council – Equal Pay B316 of 1975 transcript

Z298/Box 39 – Launceston City Council - – Equal Pay B316 of 1975 REB/NEAQ Award exhibits

Z298/Box 57 – No. 4208 of 1975 – Equal Pay (MO South Australia Award

 

National Shelter

N167/673 - Equal pay - a long way from reality - Working Women's Information Service (bulletin), 1981

 

New South Wales Fire Brigade Employees’ Union

Z332/Box 20 – Equal pay, no date

 

Professional Officers’ Association ACT Branch

Z584/17 – ACTU Equal Pay, 1987-1988

Z584/28 – Dental Therapist Group ACT equal pay parts 1 & 2, 1984-1989

Z584/41 – Telecom Social Workers Equal Pay Case, 1987-1988

 

Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of Australasia

Z9/Box 20 – Equal pay, 1966-1972

 

Union of Australian Women

Z236/Box 14 – Status of women including equal pay and childcare, 1972-1974

Z236/Box 131 – Brochure on equal pay, c. 1970s

 

United Bank Officers’ Association

N112/179 – Equal pay; female working conditions, 1964-1975

N112/191 – Female rate equal pay judgement – Full Bench Industrial Commission of New South Wales, 1959

N112/192 – Female rates, 1958-1966  

N112/193 – Female rates – equal pay, 1959-1962

N112/797-810 – United Bank Officers' Association Case (Women’s Wages), 1928 

N112/1133 - Press clippings re stop work meetings salaries campaign and equal pay case, 1968-1969

Transport Unions

Australian Railways Union Tasmanian Branch

Z292/20 – Equal pay, 1966-1977

 

Australian Railways Union South Australian Branch

Z359/Box 7 – Equal pay, 1978

 

Australian Railways Union National Office

N5/732-738 – Equal pay, 1957-1970

N5/758-759 – Female minimum rates – equal pay, 1948-1966

N5/998 – Women – workers, status, minimum rates, c. 1960s

N5/1149 – ‘Equal Pay: A White-Collar Problem’, ACSPA, 1961

N5/1191 – ‘Facts of Life? What Every Australian Woman Should Know’, Labor Council of New South Wales Equal Pay Committee, 1964

N5/1218 – ‘National Equal Pay Week’, ACTU, no date

N5/1250 – ‘Q&A on Equal Pay’, Trades Union Congress, c. 1940s

N5/1347 – ‘Are Women Paid Men’s Rates?’, Council of Action for Equal Pay, 1943

 

Australian Tramways and Motor Omnibus Employees Association, South Australian Branch

Z554/Box 25 – Equal Pay Case, 1969