New Zealand Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, Auckland Branch, further records.
Scope and Contents
This collection includes minutes, correspondence, membership lists and financial records. The collection covers the period from 1873, when the union was first formed, until 1986 making them amongst the oldest surviving trade union records in New Zealand.
This collection also includes minute books and correspondence relating to the Auckland Building Trades Council for the period 1934 to 1944.
Dates
- 1873 - 1986
Creator
- Auckland Building Trades Council (Organization)
- New Zealand Carpenters and Joiners and Joiners' Machinists Union. Auckland Branch (Organization)
- New Zealand Carpenters and Related Trades' Industrial Union of Workers (Organization)
- New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners and Joiners Machinists Industrial Union of Workers.. Auckland Branch (Organization)
- New Zealand Amalgamated Society of Carpenters' and Joiners' and Joiners' Machinists' Industrial Union of Workers. Auckland District (Organization)
- Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Joiners and Joiners' Machinists. Auckland Branch (Organization)
- Auckland Carpenters and Joiners and Joiners' Machinists Industrial Union of Workers (Organization)
- N.Z. Carpenters' and Related Trades' Union. Auckland Branch (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Not restricted
Biographical / Historical
The Auckland Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was formed on 2 February 1875 from the Auckland Carpenters and Joiners’ Protection Society formed in 1873.
In 1911 the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners decided to split the Auckland branch into separate branches in Devonport, Eden, Newmarket, Onehunga, Otahuhu and Ponsonby. Auckland then became the Auckland
Central Branch until 1915 when it merged with the Ponsonby Branch and again became the Auckland Branch.
Because of the number of branches in Auckland a District Committee was set up and aggregate meetings of all Auckland members were held from time to time.
In 1936, following compulsory unionism, the Auckland Branch attempted to cover the Northern Industrial District (north of Taupo) more effectively by setting up sub-branches in provincial towns but most collapsed during the war.
In 1943 a national carpenters' union was formed and Auckland changed its name to the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Carpenters and Joiners’ and Joiners’ Machinists’ Union.
In 1949 as the result of an industrial dispute the Auckland Branch was de-registered within a radius of 56 miles from the Auckland CPO and a new union, Auckland Carpenters and Joiners’ and Joiners' Machinists’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered to cover workers within this radius. All records and assets of the Auckland Branch were transferred to Hamilton, which became the head office of the Auckland District (excluding the new Union in
Auckland city).
The two unions continued until 1959 when both cancelled their registration and formed a new union: the New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners’ and Joiners' Machinists’ Industrial Union of Workers. Further amalgamation saw the formation of the New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Carpenters’, Joiners’, Machinists’ and Plasterers’ and (except Auckland) Bricklayers’ and Related Trades’
Industrial Union of Workers which in 1967 became known as the New Zealand Carpenters and Related Trades’ Industrial Union of Workers.
Missing Title
- 1873 -1875
- Auckland Carpenters and Joiners’ Protection Society.
- February 1875 – 1943
- Auckland Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
- 1943-1959
- New Zealand Carpenters and Joiners and Joiners Machinists IUW, Auckland Branch.
- 1949- January 1959
- Due to an industrial dispute a separate Auckland Union known as the Auckland Carpenters and Joiners and Joiners Machinists Industrial Union of Workers existed during this period.
- January 1959 - February 1960
- New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners and Joiners Machinists IUOW. Auckland Branch.
- 1960 - 1967
- New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Carpenters, Joiners, Joiners Machinists and Plasterers and (except Auckland) Bricklayers and Related Trades IUOW. Auckland Branch.
- 1967-1987
- New Zealand Carpenters and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers. Auckland Branch.
- 1987-
- New Zealand Building Trades Union. Auckland Branch.
Extent
2.45 metres (15 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Mr W. Brewer, Secretary, Hamilton Branch, New Zealand Carpenters and Related Trades Union (per H.V. Roth) in October 1987.
Bibliography
- Roth, H. 100 years fighting back: the story of the Auckland Carpenters' Union 1873-1973. Auckland: Published for the Auckland Branch, N.Z. Carpenters' Union by The Old Mole [1973].
- Ewen, J. A,
History of trade unionism among the carpenters and joiners of the city and suburbs of Auckland 1873-1937
. M.A. Thesis, History, Victoria University College, Wellington, 1949.
- Bricklayers -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Building trades -- Employees -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Carpenters -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Carpenters -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Joiners -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Joiners -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Machinists -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Machinists -- New Zealand -- Auckland
- Plasterers -- New Zealand -- Auckland
Source
- Title
- Inventory of the records of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand (Except Otago and Southland) Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners' and Joiners' Machinists' Industrial Union and the Auckland Building Trades Council.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Suzanne Loughlin
- Date
- 1991
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, University of Auckland Repository
5 Alfred Street
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142 New Zealand
specialcollections@auckland.ac.nz