Story: Unions and employee organisations All images & media From page 1 – Early unions, 1840–1880 Organising English labourers Carpenters Union certificate Printing apprentices Shearers' demands Miners’ union banner From page 2 – Gain and loss, 1880–1890 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants certificate Slaying the sweating monster Strike pay Shoe factory, Christchurch From page 3 – Reviving the unions, 1890–1913 Compulsory conciliation Breaching a preference clause The Katipo newspaper Registered unions, 1860–2007 (1st of 2) Percentage of union members (2nd of 2) New Zealand Shearers' Union conference From page 4 – Red Feds, 1913 strike and Alliance of Labour, 1913–35 Maoriland Worker in 1913 Monster mass meeting poster The gentleman from Russia Resigning from the Alliance of Labour Unemployed demonstration From page 5 – The second Federation of Labour, 1935–45 Unions at Parliament, 1945 Clerical Workers union card Working in an ammunition factory From page 6 – Unionism after the Second World War Disputing the carpenters’ dispute Anti-communist National Party poster Equal pay poster, 1961 Voting to strike From page 7 – Unions after 1960 Stop-work notice Sonja Davies at an FoL meeting (1st of 3) Jim Knox and the Women's Advisory Committee (2nd of 3) Women and union badges (3rd of 3) Challenging the Pātea freezing works closure Council of Trade Unions leaders Trades Hall and ‘Union Yes’ sign
