On Strong Foundations

"Today, wherever one looks across our vast continent, the great construction feats, from the internationally famous Sydney Opera House to the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric project; from reconstructed Darwin, raised up out of the cyclone disaster of 1974, to the beautiful buildings that have grown up to grace the sky-lines of Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, the homes, hospitals, schools, the universities and places of leisure and culture, buildings old and new, all stand as lasting monuments to the sweat, skill and toil of the Australian building worker." - Pat Clancy, National Secretary, Building Workers Industrial Union, 1973 - 1985

• On Strong Foundations
  • Unions Grow Despite Employers
    
  • United Action leads to Labor Councils
    
  • One, Big Industrial Union
    
  
  
• Unity is strength: struggles and victories to current times
  • Worker employer relations move to the Courts
    
  • Government strengthens Court's penal powers
    
  • Post-war building and changing work conditions
    
  • 1990s: from enterprise to pattern bargaining
  
  
• CFMEU - a progressive 'left' union
  • Solidarity at home and abroad
  
  
• Bibliography:

United we bargain - Divided we beg.

Contact the National Office, Construction Division at:
Level 12, 276 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Ph: 02 8524 5800
Fax: 02 8524 5801
Email: queries@fed.cfmeu.asn.au

Postal address: PO Box Q235, Queen Victoria Building Post Office, Sydney NSW 1230.