Operative Painters And Decorators' Union Of Australia (OPDU)

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000001691Activities & OccupationsTrade UnionsHistoryThe Operative Painters and Decorators' Union originated as a craft union in the nineteenth century and has retained that tradition within the building industry at both state branch and federal level until large scale union amalgamations, initiated by the ACTU, began to be considered in the late 1980s. Registered federally for the first time as the Federated House & Ship Painters Paperhangers & Decorators Employees' Association Australasia in 1910, by 1915 it had changed names to become the Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia. In 1918 the name changed again slightly to the Operative Painters' & Decorators' Union of Australia. It became part of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union in 1993.

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Date1918-1993

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Succeeding OrganisationsConstruction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union (CFMEU)

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Operative Painters And Decorators' Union Of Australia (OPDU)