Joe Palmada papers on brewery worker disputes

MLMSS 11918

fonds

1979 - 1988

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

9606928

0.15 metres of textual material (1 box), includes photograph, and drawings - manuscript, typescript, ink and pencil

Joseph Harold Palmada was a FEDFA union official, and member of the National Committee and secretary of the Sydney District Committee of the Australian Communist Party.

Palmada was a delegate of the Clerks Union, maintenance unions and the Engine Drivers Union (FEDFA), during union disputes at the Tooths Brewery, in the 1980s, including the prolonged dispute concerned with plans to sack 800 workers and the closure of the Waverly Brewery. An anonymous pamphlet 'Whose Shout' was distributed, being a parody of the short lived 'Your Shout' serial. Palmada claimed that "The information in the leaflet could only come from state security sources - ASIO or whatever - because the information is not public knowledge"

References:

"World Protests Stem S. Africa Death Sentences." 1968. Tribune, (7 February): 9. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237356433;

Palmada, Joe. (1969)."Industrial Perspectives." Australian Left Review, no. 3: 5;

"Tooths Strikers Stand Solid in Job Fight." (1980). Tribune, (23 July): 4.

Material collected between 1980 and 1988 documenting trade union disputes with breweries including Tooths and Co, Kent, and Carlton and United. Within the collection are transcripts of the proceedings of Industrial Commission of New South Wales hearings and conferences, meeting minutes, pamphlet and article drafts, copies of the short-lived periodical 'Your Shout' and hand-drawn cartoons.

Folder 1: Pamphlets concerning working conditions and strike actions at New South Wales Breweries, 1979 to 1983. Some handwritten, some duplicated from typescript.
- How Tooths is run (1979)
- Who runs Australia's brewing industry? (1980)
- Notes from New South Wales Brewery Delegates meeting, concerning National 35 Hour Week Working Party (16, January 1981)
- 'Dear Brother ... ' : communication noting the resolutions to establish and dissolve the New South Wales Brewery Delegates' Organisation (28 July, 1983)
- Tooth's dispute: a conspiracy of collusion and perfidy (circa 1981)
- Constitution and rules Kent (C.U.B.) Brewery Combined Delegates Shop Committee
- Identification of problems in the industry

Folder 2: Pictorial material and certificate
- Print of a photograph taken at a meeting of New South Wales brewery service workers, during the 35 Hour Week Campaign
- Photocopy, of a group portrait of brewery workers
- Hand-drawn and marked-up cartoon sketches, signed 'deWitt'
- Joseph Harold Palmada. Refrigeration Engine Driver's Certificate of Competency (First class)

Folders 3 - 7: Transcripts of the Industrial Commission of New South Wales concerning various union disputes with Sydney breweries.

Folder 3: 1979 - 1980
- Application for certification of Industrial Agreement (19/09/1979); draft correspondence re. proposed terms for retrenchment of clerical staff, from Tooths Personnel and Industrial Relations Manager Raymond Patterson to the Secretary, Federated Clerks Union of Australia

Folder 4: 1980
- No. 553 of 1980: Various proceedings transcripts and minutes concerning the dispute between management Trade and Labour Council, Campaign Committee members and the breweries Kent and Tooths and Co, on the matter of redundancy payments

Folder 5: 1981
-No. 261 of 1981: Transcript of compulsory conference - Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australasia (N.S.W.) dispute with Tooth and Co., concerning Claim for payment of lost time and the closure of the 'Wet' canteen at Waverley.

Folder 6: 1981 - 1982
- Nos. 524, 530 of 1981 concerning variations of hours and other matters
- No. 446 of 1981, concerning Variation of Award and transcripts for proceedings,
- No. 1377 of 1981 concerning ban of refrigeration,
- Matters regarding No. 794 of 1981 and Nos. 48, 91, 94, 8, 99, 106, 107 of 1982

Folder 7: 1984 - 1988 - Various transcripts and documents concerning the variation of Award and wages.
- Transcripts for Nos. 932, 2270 of 1984
- Nos 525, 662 of 1985,
- No. 1294 of 1986: In the matter pf a dispute between Carlton and United Breweries (N.S.W.) Pty. Limited and Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia ... re bans of use of contractors and overtime.
- No 680 of 1987: ... re. proposal to introduce a change to shift rosters and application for variations of Awards.

Your shout : Brewery workers bulletin.
- Issues [vol. 1, no. 1] - vol. 2, no. 1.
Catalogued separately in the Library's main catalogue at call number: Q331.8809944/7