ASC&J: AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF CARPENTERS & JOINERS SOUTH AUSTRALIA

(Now part of the Australian Workers Union)

Funded by: Union funded
Produced: Date unavailable

A reproduction of an old union banner in lush satin material.

Union aims – Industry, Benevolence, and Friendship – hark back to its founding in 1876. Many unions began as Friendly or Benevolent Societies, providing sickness and funeral benefits. Paid sick leave didn’t exist in the 1800s.

Loaned by the Australian Workers Union SA Branch