Papua New Guinea Maritime Workers Industrial Union - Minutes, press releases and related papers, 1985-1997

PMB 1148

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441492

Microfilm : PMB 1148

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The union began in the ethnically based welfare societies formed in Port Moresby in the late 1950s. Waterside workers were also active in the PNG Workers' Association and its successor the Port Moresby Workers' Association in the 1960s. The Central District Waterside Workers' Union was established at a public meeting in Port Moresby on 24 July 1968 and registered under the PNG Industrial Organisations Ordinance on 28 January 1969. Between 1977 and 1980 the CDWWU embarked on a series of amalgamations with the Overseas Seamen's Union, the Rabaul Workers' Association, the Madang Waterside Workers' Union and the Lae Stevedoring Union. The amalgamated union, the PNG Waterside Workers' and Seamen's Union, the first national private sector union in Papua New Guinea, was registered on 8 January 1980. The name of the organisation was changed to the Papua New Guinea Maritime Workers Industrial Union on 18 October 1993. (See Michael Hess, "Unions under economic development : private sector unions in PNG" OUP, 1992

Minutes, press releases and related papers, 1985-1997, including : Management Committee minutes, 1994-1997; National Conference, National Council and National Executive Council minutes, agenda and related papers, 1985-1991-1997; Union's press releases together with associated press cuttings and statements, 1990-1997

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1148
Available for reference. Not for loan
Microfilm. Balgowlah : W.& F. Pascoe Pty Ltd for Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University : 1998. 2 microform reels : positive, 35 mm
Originals held by PNGMWIU Office, Port Moresby, PNG
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