M.E.A.
Federated Millers and Mill Employees' Association of Australasia
Merged intoFederated Millers and Manufacturing Grocers Employees' Association of Australia
Founded1911
Dissolved1988
HeadquartersRoom 4, Second Floor, Victorian Trades Hall, Carlton, Melbourne, VIC
Location
  • Australia
Members
4,300 (1971)[1]
AffiliationsA.C.T.U., A.L.P.

The Federated Millers and Mill Employees' Association of Australasia (MEA) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1911 and 1988.[2] The union represented workers employed in milling grain.

Formation

Group portrait of the Victorian branch executive of the union, taken in 1919

The Federation (originally the Federated Millers and Mill Employes' Association) was formed as a result of a meeting in Adelaide in May 1910.[3] At the first annual meeting held in Melbourne in March 1911, the following officers were elected: President, Mr. T. Drum (N.S.W.); vice-president, Mr. W. Bain (S.A.); general secretary, Mr. G. Lewis (N.S.W.); treasurer, Mr. J. Nealer (Vic.); trustees, Frank Condon (S.A.) and J. Kebble. Apologies were received from the Western Australian branch.[4]

Amalgamation

In 1988 the M.E.A. amalgamated with the Manufacturing Grocers' Employees' Federation of Australia to form the Federated Millers and Manufacturing Grocers Union. This union then merged shortly after into the recently formed National Union of Workers.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rawson, D. W. (1973). "A Handbook of Australian Trade Unions and Employees' Associations – Second Edition". Canberra:The Australian National University. ISBN 0-7081-0634-X
  2. 1 2 Smith, Bruce A. created 20 April 2001, last modified 6 August 2010. Trade Union Entry: Federated Millers & Mill Employees Association of Australasia. "http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0471b.htm". Australian Trade Union Archives. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  3. ↑ "Flourmill Employes". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 11 May 1910. p. 8. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Mill Employes". Daily Herald. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 17 March 1911. p. 8. Retrieved 18 November 2014. "employe" (or "employé") was then a common (male) spelling.

Further reading

  • nuw.org.au The website of the National Union of Workers, the successor to the Federated Millers and Mill Employees' Union.
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