Railway trade unions in Australia
# Railway trade unions in Australia

Railway Unions in Australia organised labour of railway employees in Australia operated under federal and State awards - this is a partial list of known unions. Many of the unions amalgamated over time, creating a complex trail of ancestry for some of the later unions.

## Federal Award unions

The following unions were based on federal - Australian wide awards

* Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia (1921 - )
* Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen
* Australian Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union, RTBU (1993 - )
* Australian Railways Union, ARU (1921 - 1993)
* Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees' Association
* Australian Transport Officers' Federation
* Commonwealth Engine Drivers & Firemens Association of Australia (1918 - 1925)
* Commonwealth Railway Officers Association (1917 - 1950)
* Federated Tramways Officers Association (1920 - 1949)
* National Union of Rail Workers of Australia (1982 - 1993)

## New South Wales

* Australian Railways Union - N.S.W. Branch

## South Australia

* Australian Railways Union - South Australian Branch
* Australasian Society of Engineers - South Australia

## Tasmania

* Australian Railways Union - Tasmanian Branch

## Victoria

* Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (Victorian Division)
* Australian Railways Union - Victoria
* Victorian Railways Transportation Employees Association (1906 - 1950)
* Train & Locomotive Drivers Association of Victoria (2017 - )

## Western Australia

Some of the following unions were the railway related unions in Western Australia.

* Association of Draughting, Supervisory and Technical Employees
* Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees (see below, Western Australian...)
* Australian Railways Union (Western Australian Branch)
* Railway Industry Council
* Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union
* Western Australian Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees' Union of Workers
* Western Australian Association of State Railway Employees
* Locomotive Engine Drivers’ Firemen's and Cleaners’ Union of Western Australia
   * (earlier known as West Australian Locomotive Engine Drivers' Firemen's and Cleaners' Union of Workers)
* West Australian Railway Officers’ Union
* Western Australian Railway Unions Joint Executive
* West Australian Vehicle Builders’ Industrial Union of Workers

## Records and archives

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre at Australian National University is one of the more significant repositories of railway union records in Australia

