Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia

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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsTrade UnionsHistoryThe Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society was formed in 1965 by amalgamation. Its predecessors included on one side the Federated Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders of Australia (registered federally 1911), Federated Society of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders & Structural Iron & Steel Workers of Australia from 1929, Boilermakers Society of Australia (1937-1965). On the other side was the Blacksmiths Society of Australasia (registered in 1919 but established in 1911), and the Blacksmiths Society of Australia (1954-1965). In 1972 the Boilermake and Blacksmiths Society amalgamated with the Amalgamated Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union.

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Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia