AGWA: AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT WORKERS ASSOCIATION

(Now part of the United Workers Union)

Funded by: AGWA

Produced: Early 1930s

The Australian Government Workers Association was originally known as the South Australian Government General Workers Association, formed in 1906. It covered all state government employees.

In 1981 the AGWA amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union, making this combined union the largest blue collar union in South Australia at the time.

Cited in: All Our Working Lives: A project by working people documenting their struggles and achievements, co-ordinated by Andrew Hill, Eugenia Hill, United Trades & Labor Council (SA), Working Women’s Centre, Trade Union Training Authority, Community Media Association, Kitchener Press, 1984, p. 105.

Loaned by the United Workers Union SA Branch