Summary

Alternative Name: Button & Certificate

Badge and certificate issued to Mr Ray Findlay , who was appointed an Offical Union Steward of the Operative Painters' & Decorators' Union of Australia, Victorian Branch on the 20 March 1963.The badge and certificate are numbered 297, and the certificate is signed by the Secretary, G. H. Leurino.

The Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union originated as a craft union in the nineteenth century. It retained this tradition within the building industry until large-scale union amalgamation occurred in the late 1980s, initiated by the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

The Union was first registered federally in 1910 as the Federated House & Ship Painters, Paperhangers & Decorators Employees' Association Australasia. By 1915 it had become the Operative Painters & Decorators of Australasia. In 1918 the name changed again, to the Operative Painters' & Decorators' Union of Australia. Seventy-five years later, in 1993, the union amalgamated to form the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU).

Physical Description

Round metal badge with white background and red and black text. The badge is pinned to a certificate on off-white paper with black printing, and handwriting in black and blue ink. The certificate has dirty marks.

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