"QCU" redirects here. For the university in Quezon City, see Quezon City University.
Queensland Council of Unions
Founded
1922
Headquarters
16 Peel Street, South Brisbane, Queensland
Location
Australia
Members
350,000 from affiliated unions
Key people
Kate Ruttiman, Honorary President Michael Clifford, General Secretary Beth Mohle and Owen Doogan, Senior Vice-Presidents
Affiliations
ACTU
Website
www.queenslandunions.org
The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) is a representative, an advocacy group, or peak body, of Queensland trade union organisations, also known as a labour council, in the Queensland, Australia. As of 2020, 26 unions and 13 regional branches were affiliated with the QCU. The QCU represents unions covering around 350,000 Queensland workers. It is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Its offices are located in the suburb of South Brisbane, Queensland.[1] As a peak body for the Queensland trade unions, the objective of the QCU is to achieve industrial, social and political justice for Queensland workers. The management structure of the QCU is made up of a committee of management and an executive of representatives comprised from affiliated unions.
The history of the QCU is intertwined with the history of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Australian labour movement generally. The QCU was formed in 1885, but in 1889 it disbanded and all its roles and responsibilities were transferred to a newly formed peak body, the Australian Labor Federation (ALF) (which despite its name was restricted to Queensland). In 1902 the QCU reformed, but again, in 1911, all its delegates moved to the ALF. In 1914 the ALF itself dissolved, with its affiliates moving to the growing Australian Workers Union (AWU). At this time the roles of the QCU were shared by a number of labour organisations, including the Brisbane Industrial Council, the Eight Hour Union and the Brisbane Trades Hall Board. At the end of World War I in 1918 Queensland unions regrouped but it was another four years before 46 unions reformed the Queensland Trades and Labour Council, now known as the QCU.[2]
^QCU website
^Fitzgerald, Ross. Seven Days to Remember: The world’s first Labor government, Queensland 1–7 December 1899. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999. ISBN 9780702231391
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