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    The Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) was an Australian trade union that existed from 1911 until 1972, and from 1976 until 1986, when it was permanently...
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  • left-wing feminist activists who joined the NSW chapter of the Builders Labourers Federation (NSWBLF), becoming trailblazers in the fight to gain acceptance...
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    metalworker and later a builder's labourer, joining successively the Federated Ironworkers' Association and the Builders Labourers Federation. He also played...
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  • mainly took place in Australia during the 1970s, led by the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) and used to protect parkland, low-income housing and buildings...
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  • militant Builders Labourers Federation as federal Secretary and as Victorian State Secretary. Gallagher was raised in Melbourne and joined the Builders Labourers...
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  • The Pink Ban was a strike action, taken by the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF), at Macquarie University due to the expulsion of a gay man from student...
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  • employee groups may have occurred due to a range of issues: Builders Labourers Federation Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union Health Workers Union...
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    the railway station. In the 1970s, a green ban imposed by the Builders Labourers Federation stopped a Coles Supermarket being built that would result in...
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  • Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation. Sydney: UNSW Press. Wall, D. (2005). Babylon and Beyond: The...
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    nature reserve. There was a brief green ban imposed by the Builders Labourers Federation (under the influence of Jack Mundey) that eventually failed...
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    the original battery. In 1973, a green ban was placed by the Builders Labourers Federation to prevent destruction of certain buildings by developers. The...
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    1973, a green ban was imposed on the Queensland Club by the Builders Labourers Federation to stop its destruction to make an office block, along with...
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  • involved with the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation, better known as the B.L.F. He was the last Victorian secretary...
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  • John Ward. In 1973, the student union (MUSC) worked with the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) to organise one of the first "pink bans". Similar in tactic...
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  • Firemen and Enginemen in North America Bruce Lee Foundation Builders Labourers Federation in Australia Mercer County Airport (West Virginia); IATA airport...
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  • Association (1910-1993) Australian Transport Officers' Federation (1927-1991) Builders Labourers Federation (1911-1980s) Building Workers' Industrial Union of...
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    perceptions had begun to turn towards retention of the station. A Builders Labourers Federation green ban at the time helped preserve it in its existing form...
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    large meeting of residents successfully requested that the NSW Builders Labourers Federation place a ban on the construction of town-house type dwellings...
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  • Among the projects he tried to make included: Strike about the Builders Labourers Federation a film adaptation of Drums of Mer by Ion Idriess The Reaper...
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    Government's sacking of the City Council in December 1980. The Builders Labourers Federation announced they would ban any attempts to move it. In July 1981...
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    abandoned for many years while its future was debated. In 1973, the Builders Labourers Federation placed a green ban on the site; despite this, the Queensland...
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    Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation. p. 50. Allom Lovell & Associates [Conservation architects]...
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    landholding before being subdivided in the 1880s. In 1974, the Builders Labourers Federation placed a green ban against the construction of demolition of...
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  • Joske; Ex parte Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders' Labourers' Federation, powers such as reorganising unions and invalidating union...
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  • National Revolution. Socialism was a major ideology behind the Builders Labourers Federation and the green bans in the 1970s. The Victorian branch of the...
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  • Kelly, after she visited Australia and saw the actions of the Builders Labourers Federation and their green ban actions. In the 1983 federal election, the...
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  • Department, which follows the French continental approach. The Builders Labourers Federation placed a ban on the university after two women tutors were not...
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  • The United Builders' Labourers Union was a trade union representing labourers in the construction industry in the United Kingdom. The union was founded...
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    1986, the Hawke government passed a bill to de-register the Builders Labourers Federation federally due to the union not following the Accord agreements...
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    the CML building, were saved from destruction after the NSW Builders Labourers Federation placed green bans to enforce National Trust preservation orders...
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