On 24 December 1919 Electrical Trades Union of Australia federally re-registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 as an association of employees. This date is now taken as the official registration date of the Federal Union.
In 2005, plans were made to picket the former premier's State funeral, however those plans were subsequently abandoned following requests by the union leadership.[3]
In 2007, the ETU leader Dean Mighell was expelled from the Australian Labor Party for supporting the Greens during the federal election.[4] In the lead-up to the 2010 federal election, the Victorian ETU withdrew its support for the Labor Party, citing Labor's refusal to scrap laws restricting union action on building sites.[5] However, since then it has rejoined in the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.[6][7]
^Lavelle, Ashley (2008). The death of social democracy : political consequences in the 21st century. Ashgate Pub. Co. p. 71. ISBN9780754691662. Victorian based Electrical Trades Union (ETU) leader Dean Mighell, expelled from the ALP for being caught on videotape advocating militant industrial action, argued that 'at election time the only party with truly worker-friendly policies is going to be the Greens' (cited in Syvret 2007). ... He described the Greens' industrial relations policy as 'traditional Labor', and argued that increasing numbers of trade union officials were thinking of either privately or publicly supporting the Greens in the federal Senate (cited in Marris 2007, 4; Bachelard 2007).
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