Item SH 980407 Badge - Federated Rubber & Allied Workers Union, Pitcher, Australia, 1933-1988

Summary

Badge made by Pitcher, in Melbourne. It was made for the Federated Rubber & Allied Workers Union before the Union amalgamated with the Federated Storemen and Packers' Union of Australia in 1991 to become the National Union of Workers. The Rubber and Allied Worker's Union sought to deal with the problem of high labour turnover and with improving the position of migrant labour in Australian industry.

Federated and registered in 1911 as the Rubber Workers Union of Australia, this union immediately recognised the growing importance of motor transport within the Australian economy, particularly in terms of how it would affect the rubber industry. By 1916 the union had changed names to the Federated Rubber Workers of Australia. In 1923 its name changed again, this time to the Federated Rubber Workers Union of Australia. Ten years later, in 1933, it became the Federated Rubber & Allied Workers Union of Australia.

Physical Description

Round brass badge with blue enamel border with gold-coloured text. In the centre on a textured gold-coloured background, cream map of Australia with gold-coloured text. Horizontal pin & catch on reverse. Raised text on reverse.