Transport Workers Union of Australia
The Transport Workers Union of Australia ( TWU ) ( German: Australian Trade Union of Transport Workers ) organized in 2011 about 90,000 employees of the Australian road, airport transportation, bus and taxi services and waste management. The mechanics of these industries are organized in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
Organizational structure
The organizational structure of the TWU is based on the so-called Organise model. This means that the TWU care on a broad basis to the extraction, development and enforcement of interests of its members. This Volzeitbeschäftigte are primarily employed which are to form a strong network to establish the trade union work on a broad basis and the members fully informed and participate. Therefore, the TWU in five regional areas (New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria / Tasmania, Western Australia ) is located. Organise Against the model is standing against the so-called service model.
The TWU is a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the International Transport Workers' Federation.
History
From 1880, there were isolated small organizations representing the interests of transport workers, for example, the milk drivers and other transport drivers. The emergence of a large union, the transport work was in its scope too low as a sustainable working with horses at that time, spontaneous and random.
In 1906 the first major transport union, the Federated Carters and Drivers ' Industrial Union, which is regarded as the forerunner of the TWU. With the development of the Australian industry and the construction of automobiles and trucks motorized transportation to a competition of the railroad was.
1925 proposed the Federated Carters and Drivers ' Industrial Union, trolley, Draymen and Carter ' Union, Motor Transport and Chauffeurs ' Association to form a new union, which was achieved with the Amalgamated Road Transport Workers Union, Australia wide in 1928 was registered. The further development of the TWU was halted by the Great Depression and unemployment of 1929-1930.
After the completion of the Great Depression, oil shipments grew by Australia on particularly strong and there were needed a truck driver. 1937 came the airport transport, and in 1938 the name was changed to Transport Workers' Union of Australia.
During the Second World War the Transport Workers were forced to work longer and the driver received higher payments. After the end of the war, the transport industry has continued to rise and was dominated by the company Ansett Australia, TNT, Mayne Nickless, Brambles and all trans / Comet.
In the 1960s, the truck driver made sustainable wages and the transportation industry continued to evolve. The control and operation of motor vehicles has been complicated, the heavy loads and the loading difficult. This required better training and productivity increased. Due to the demand in the transport sector higher wage increases than in other industries were achieved until the 1970s.
The recession 1982-1983 in Australia led to the restructuring of the transport industry and the transport company rolled the responsibility and risk of the supplies to the driver from. To reduce costs, the computerization of transport and logistics took place, which had an impact on the driver.
1987 merged with the TWU, the motor transport and chauffeur Association, which is responsible for the private Buswesen in Victoria.
When the Conservative government of the Liberal Party of Australia from John Howard came to power in 1996, it enacted the Workplace Relations Act 1996, which meant that union truck driver could not be employed. Then, the number of members, which rose again only in 2004, when the TWU conducted numerous campaigns for co-operation with other unions declined.