Established by the Whitlam government with the aim of making the Australian trade union movement 'the most enlightened and efficient in the world' (in the words of its most ardent champion, Clyde Cameron MP), TUTA survived and thrived for 21 years, with training centres in all states and territories and a purpose-built national residential college in the Albury-Wodonga growth centre. ;xNLx;;xNLx;TUTA trainers ran courses across Australia for job representatives and union officials and employees, trained union trainers to run their own in-house courses, responded to changing industrial relations by developing new courses and regularly published comprehensive and clearly written guides and manuals on every aspect of union work.;xNLx;;xNLx;TUTA was dismantled soon after the election of John Howard's Liberal-National Party government in 1996.;xNLx;;xNLx;This timeline explores important moments, people and developments in the life of TUTA. ;xNLx;;xNLx;It has been produced as one output of an ARC Linkage project exploring 'Trade union training: reshaping the Australian industrial landscape', with partners The University of Melbourne, RMIT, ACTU and Trade Union Education Foundation. ;xNLx;;xNLx;Should you notice any errors or have a suggestion for an entry, please contact the researchers Dr Mary Leahy or Dr Alice Garner, through the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education.;xNLx;;xNLx;Image:;xNLx;Clyde Cameron College, interior, 1979. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. NAA: B6295, 6039V
In 2002, the program was renamed the Labor and Worklife Program and sits within the Harvard Law Faculty.
A 2-day school attended by 12 CPA members active in the AEU. See Boughton, Educating the Educations, p. 165
In June 1949, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions was established in Geneva, as a counter-organisation to the Communist-aligned WFTU.
Held in Elsinore, Denmark this UNESCO international conference of adult educators was the first of its kind, with 106 delegates representing 27 countries.
Acc to Leow 2019: Asian-Australian Trade Union Conference (AATUC), hashed out in meetings throughout the first half of 1949 in Moscow and later at the second WFTU conference in Milan, was convened in Beijing in November 16–22, 1949 under the auspices of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU).'
Established by the Inter-American Organization for Latin American trade unionists, based in the University of Puerto Rico.
The first International Conference of Free Trade Unions College opened in Calcutta, India, with tutors recruited from the ICFTU and the British Trade Union Congress.
This Trade Union Training School was established by the Soviet-aligned World Federation of Trade Unions.
The Building Workers' Industrial Union NSW created an Education Committee in early 1959 and ran regular public lectures on subjects of interest to their members.
See Leow, R. (2019). Asian Lessons in the Cold War Classroom: Trade Union Networks and the Multidirectional Pedagogies of the Cold War in Asia. Journal of Social History, 53(2), 429-453. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz102
