Service & Food Workers Union

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The collection contains minutes of committee meetings and AGMs, correspondence including membership enquiries, and papers pertaining to particular areas of interest for the organisation including support for a New Zealand music quota and establishment of the New Zealand Music Network – NetMusic.

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The collection covers the period 1985 – 1991 and includes minutes, correspondence and some financial records. The records were created by the national, New Plymouth based, office of the IHC Staff Association and its successor, the Community Services Union. The records were part of a larger mixed donation of records containing material from a number of Unions which amalgamated with the Service Workers' during the 1990s.

Scope and Contents With the exception of the minutes of the National Executive Committee the bulk of records in this collection relate to the Auckland Branch of the Union and cover the 1970s and 1980s with a few records from the early 1990s which in part document the amalgamation process with the Service Workers Union. The collection includes, correspondence, financial records, files relating to particular disputes, leaflets, brochures, photographs and clippings. The records reflect the fact that...

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Includes minutes, agendas, correspondence and related papers, leaflets and clippings. The majority of the files of correspondence and related papers date from the 1980s and early 1990s and document disputes handled by the union pertaining to pay and conditions for school caretakers and cleaners, the introduction in 1991 of Tomorrow’s Schools programme and the increasing use of contract cleaners by schools and businesses.

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The collection contains correspondence and working papers documenting the amalgamation of the Community Services Union and the clerical workers union COMPASS with the Service Workers and the work of the union during the 1990s.