Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia

TCFUA
Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia
Merged into	Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union
Founded	1 July 1992
Dissolved	2018
Headquarters	Sydney, New South Wales
Location	Australia;
Key people	Tony Woolgar, national secretary
Affiliations	ACTU
Website	www.tcfua.org.au

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) was a trade union in Australia. It represented a wide range of workers from the textile, clothing, footwear and felt hatting industries.

Total employment in Australian textile, clothing and footwear manufacturing (thousands of people) since 1984

The TCFUA was formed 1 July 1992 by the merger of the Amalgamated Footwear & Textile Workers' Union of Australia and the Clothing & Allied Trades Union of Australia. It was affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. In 2018, the TCFUA merged into the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union.^[1]

References edit

^ Daley, Beth. "Unions have a history of merging – that's why the new 'super union' makes sense". The Conversation. The Conversation. Retrieved 19 December 2023.

External links edit

TCFUA official site.

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[1] Daley, Beth. "Unions have a history of merging – that's why the new 'super union' makes sense". The Conversation. The Conversation. Retrieved 19 December 2023.

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