300:, became the first president of ACSPA. Despite being a founding member, the AAESDA was regarded as unusual within ACSPA due to its industrial militancy, relative to the other affiliates, including being prepared to use strike action as a bargaining tool with management. The union remained affiliated with ACSPA until 1977, when, having become disillusioned with the slow progress of negotiations to merge ACSPA with the ACTU, it transferred its affiliation to the ACTU. This move was met with opposition from some sections of the union's membership, unhappy with the AAESDA being affiliated with a body traditionally associated with blue-collar workers. Shortly after, ACSPA merged into the ACTU in 1979.
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Federal Conference, made up of elected delegates from each state branch, and a Federal Secretary and Assistant Federal Secretary (elected every four years by the national membership of the union), which decided policy and direction for the union nationally.
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402:(ACT) branches. While the West Australian and Tasmanian branches were eventually persuaded to change their position, the ACT branch led a campaign to oppose the merger. The amalgamation was finally completed on 1 April 1991, after a referendum in which 60% of participating ADSTE members voted to support the amalgamation proposal. The merged organisation was named the
406:(MEWU) and had a total of 167,500 members. The membership previously represented by ADSTE became the 'Technical and Supervisory Division' of the MEWU. Immediately following the merger the Division lost a significant proportion of its members, with approximately 40 percent of former ADSTE members choosing not to continue membership in the amalgamated body.
268:. Like the AAESDA, the AAD had benefited from war-time industrial activity through a growing membership, quickly expanding to other states and achieving federal registration in October 1943. The AAD had initially opposed the federal registration of the AAESDA, on the grounds that the two organisations would compete for coverage of the same employees.
346:(APEA). By 1979 technicians accounted for 48 per cent of the AAESDA's membership; draughtsmen, 31 per cent; and supervisors, 18 per cent – architects, engineers and surveyors collectively made up less than 3 per cent of the union. To better reflect this new membership profile the union changed its name in 1981 to the
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in draughting), outsourcing in the public service and the decline of the
Australian manufacturing industry began to put pressure on the AAESDA and between 1975 and 1980 it lost over 17 percent of its membership nationally, falling to 20,049. To offset these losses the union sought to amalgamate with
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Industry Award. This application was opposed by employers, who argued that it would create "divided loyalties" among staff employees, and undermine their "management ethic". The application was granted by the Commission, with the proviso
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industries. Due to the makeup of the occupations it covered the union was almost exclusively male – for example, female members made up only 1.6 percent of the South
Australian state branch in 1981. In 1970 less than three percent of the association's approximately 20,000 members were women. The
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Australian unions, became more industrially militant, including being more prepared to undertake strikes and other industrial action. The union's membership was also undergoing a change as fields such as architecture and engineering became increasingly
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Australia ADSTE did not include managerial-level or administrative employees and many of its members were former tradespeople (60% in 1991) who had been promoted to more highly skilled positions. Typical occupations included draughtsmen,
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233:(AAESDA). Its acronym would lead it to be affectionately nicknamed the 'Alphabetical Association'. The first annual meeting of the new Federal Council of the AAESDA was held in December 1945 and it was decided to move the union's head office from Queensland to
322:, the AAESDA did not attempt to restrict or regulate entry into the occupations it covered, but rather encouraged its members to gain recognised qualifications to help formalise the position of technical workers in the structure of the
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311:(CAGEO) in 1974. Earlier attempts to affiliate with the CCPSO had been rejected, due to the AAESDA's sizeable private sector membership. The union would remain affiliated until 1981, when CAGEO merged into the ACTU.
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237:, where it would remain for the rest of the union's history – mainly due to the fact that the Victorian state branch had the largest membership in the union. In the same year the AAESDA merged with the
383:(AEU), which had a broad membership among blue-collar workers in manufacturing, however there was a strong backlash from the membership, who resisted the loss of their union's distinct identity.
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