PACIFIC MANUSCRIPTS BUREAU
 Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies 
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
Telephone: (06) 249 2521	Fax: (06) 249 0198	E-mail: pambu@coombs.anu.edu.au

PMB 1085 	FIJI TRADES UNION CONGRESS ARCHIVES

Usual access

Reel 1		FTUC Delegates Conference papers: the papers include annual 
		reports, financial reports and some minutes of the conference 
		proceedings:
Annual conference, Mar 1962
Annual conference, Jun 1963
Annual conference, May 1965
Annual conference, Oct 1966
Annual conference, Dec 1967
Annual conference, Jul 1969
Annual conference, Mar 1970
Annual conference, Mar 1971
Annual conference, Sep 1972
Annual conference, Dec 1973
Annual conference, Dec 1974
Special constitutional conference, Aug 1975
24th annual conference, Dec 1975
25th annual conference, Dec 1976
26th annual conference, Dec 1977
27th annual conference, May 1979: report on activities
28th annual conference, May 1980: report on activities
27th annual conference, May 1979: conference file (filmed out of order)
29th annual conference, May 1981: report on activities and financial report
30th delegates’ conference, May 1983: report on activities and conference file

Reel 2
31st delegates’ conference, May 1985: report on activities, financial reports and file
2nd youth wing delegates’ Conference, Sep 1986
32nd delegates’ conference, Jan 1988: report on activities, financial report and file
33rd delegates’ conference, Jan 1990: report on activities
34th delegates’ conference, May 1992: report on activities
35th delegates’ conference, May 1994: report on activities, [to p.103].

Reel 3
35th delegates’ conference, May 1994: report on activities, [p.103 ff].

FTUC Executive Committee minutes and related papers, May 1966, Nov 1971, 
	Oct 1972, Dec 1972, Feb 1973-Apr 1989 (some gaps) 

Reel 4
FTUC Executive Committee minutes and related papers, Apr 1989-Jan 1991
FTUC Management Board minutes and related papers, Jan 1974-Aug 1983 (gaps)

PMB 1085: Fiji Trades Union Congress Archives: Reel List, cont.

Reel 5
FTUC Management Board minutes and related papers, Aug 1983-Apr 1991 (gaps). See also reel 11 below.

FTUC Official Directory, 1979/80
FTUC Official Directory, 1980
FTUC Official Directory, 1981/82

Reel 6
FTUC Official Directory, 1983/84
FTUC Official Directory, 1986/87
FTUC Official Directory, 1990/91

Onward Labour: FTUC Silver Jubilee, 1951-1976 [FTUC anniversay publication, 1976.]
Selected FTUC general files:
Fiji Industrial Workers Congress, 1964-1974
FTUC Constitution, 1981

Reel 7
Selected FTUC general files, continued:
Special Constitutional Conference, Suva, 25 Oct 1986
Colonial Secretary, 1955-1969
Ministry of Labour, 1968-1977 [file continued on reel 8]

Reel 8
Selected FTUC general files, continued: 
Ministry of Labour, 1968-1977 [continued from reel 7]
Ministry of Labour, 1977-1980
Press releases, 1974-1985
Press releases, 1985-1987
Conference for a Nuclear Free Pacific, Suva, 1-6 Apr 1975 [continued on reel 9]

Reel 9
Selected FTUC general files, continued:
Conference for a Nuclear Free Pacific, Suva, 1-6 Apr 1975 (continued from reel 8)
Fiji Anti-Nuclear Goup, 1983-1984
Report on the National Union of Mine Workers, 1983
Fiji Labour Party (1), 1985

Reel 10
Selected FTUC general files, continued:
Fiji Labour Party (2), 1985-1987
Solidarity messages re Coup, May-Oct 1987
Trade bans, May-Sep 1987
Second Coup and subsequent developments, Jul 1987-Jan 1988

Reel 11
FTUC Management Board minutes and related papers, Jan 1985-Aug 1988
(A file of original signed minutes which was not available during phase 1 of the project.)
FTUC press releases, Oct 1977-Mar 1985
FTUC press releases, Mar 1985-Sep 1987
FTUC press releases, Sep 1987-Oct 1991
PMB 1085: Fiji Trades Union Congress Archives: Reel List, cont.

Reel 12
FTUC press releases, Feb 1992-Feb 1996
FTUC circulars to affiliates, 1959-1974
FTUC circulars to affiliates, 1974-1978

Reel 13
FTUC document files, 1973-1986.
(Papers, reports, etc. presented at conferences, seminars and workshops by FTUC delegates, and also papers on or related to the FTUC and/or Fijian trade unionism. Arranged in chronological order.)

Reel 14
FTUC document files, 1986-1990
FTUC document files, undated papers, 1973-1989
FTUC document files, undated papers on the FTUC
FTUC document files, undated papers on aspets of trade union administration and 
	industrial relations

Reel 15
Selected FTUC general files:
Governor General, 1987
Prime Minister’s Office, 1978-1987
Opposition Office, 1979 (National Federation Party)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1978-1985
Ministry of Finance, 1978-1987
Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Immigration, 1980-1984
Papers on the Trades Disputes Bill, 1973
Tripartitie Forum, 1977-1978

Reel 16
Selected FTUC general files:
Tripartitie Forum, 1978-1979
Tripartitie Forum, 1981-1983
Tripartitie Forum, 1983-1986 [cont’ on reel 17]

Reel 17
Selected FTUC general files:
Tripartitie Forum, 1983-1986 [cont’ from reel 16]
Labour Advisory Committee, 1979-1989
National Economic Summit, 4-5 Feb 1985
FTUC Labour Summit, 3-4 May 1985
Wage and salary freeze, 1984-1986 [to 29 Nov 1984, cont’ on reel 18.]

PMB 1085: Fiji Trades Union Congress Archives: Reel List, cont.

Reel 18
Selected FTUC general files:
Wage and salary freeze, 1984-1986 [from Dec 1984, cont’ from reel 17.]
Wage freeze, 1988
“Background Information on the Position of Trade Unions in Fiji, May 1987-
	Jan 1988”, prepared for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
	Fact Finding Mission to Fiji, 12 -15 Jan 1988.
I.S. Decree, 1988
Industrial relations, Jun-Sep 1988
National strike, Jul 1991

Reel 19
Selected FTUC general files:
Fiji Labour Party: review of boundaries of constituencies for the 1987 general 
	elections, Oct 1986
Fiji Labour Party, 1986-1987
Labour Party, 1990
Nuclear activity, 1982
Nuclear testing, 1982-1986
Sugar industry, 1980-1987
Garment Manufacturing Industry Tribunal, 1986: FTUC submission and annexes

Reel 20
Selected FTUC general files:
Garment Manufacturing Industry Tribunal, 1986, cont’:
# Submission by the Garment Manufacturers Sub-Committee of the Fiji Manufacturers 
	Association
# Exhibits 1-4 attached to the above
# Summing up by the Fiji Garment Manufacturers Association, 4 Jun 1986
# Verbatim notes on the Garment Manufacturers Industry Tribunal, 12 May-
	4 May 1986, 16 May 1986, 2-4 Jun 1986

Selected FTUC affiliate files:
National Union of Factory and Commercial Workers, 1965-1976
National Union of Factory and Commercial Workers, 1975-1977

Reel 21
Selected FTUC affiliate files:
National Union of Factory and Commercial Workers, 1978-1983
Fijian Mine Workers Union, 1962-1976
National Union of Mineworkers - proposal to revive, 1989
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Vatukoula Gold Mine, 31 Jul 1995 
	[to p.168, cont’on reel 22]

PMB 1085: Fiji Trades Union Congress Archives: Reel List, cont.

Reel 22
Selected FTUC affiliate files:
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Vatukoula Gold Mine, 31 Jul 1995 	[p.169ff. cont’ from reel 21.]
Fiji Stevedores Union, 1957-1971
Fiji Stevedores Union, 1971-1973
Fiji Waterside Workers and Seamens Union, 1974
Fiji Waterside Workers and Seamens Union - industrial action 1977, 1974-1978
Fiji Waterside Workers and Seamens Union, 1977-1982

Reel 23
Selected FTUC affiliate files:
Fiji Registered Port Workers Union, 1978-1982
Seafarers Union of Fiji, 1982
Fiji Foreign Going Seamens Union, 1982
Fiji Sugar and General Workers Union/Fiji Sugar Employees’ Union/
	Chini Mazdur Sangh, 1954-1975
Hotel and Catering Employees Union, 1963-1964
Fiji Hotel and Catering Employees Union, 1971-1977
National Union of Hotel and Catering Employeess - application for 
	affiliation, 1981-1984
Fiji Pastoral Employees Union, 1956-1977 [to 1973, continued on reel 24]

Reel 24
Selected FTUC affiliate files:
Fiji Pastoral Employees Union, 1956-1977 [continued from reel 23]
Fiji Pastoral Employees Union, 1978-1980
National Farmers Union, 1980
Fiji Nurses Association, 1978-1988
Fiji Nurses Association, 1990
Fiji Oil Workers Union, 1960-1977
Fiji Oil and Allied Workers Union, 1977-1982 [to Mat 1981, cont’ on reel 25]

Reel 25
Selected FTUC affiliate files:
Fiji Oil and Allied Workers Union, 1977-1982 [from Apr 1981, cont’ from reel 24]
Fiji Oil and Allied Workers Union, 1983-1988
Airport Workers’ Union (Airport, Hotel and Catering Workers Union), 1965-72, 1976
Airline Workers Union, 1971-72, 1975-77
Federated Airline Staff Association, 1977-1979 (includes two papers by D. Lal, 
	President, Qantas Staff Association, on the Trades Dispuutes Act, 1977) 
	[to Jan 1979, cont’ on reel 26]

PMB 1085: Fiji Trades Union Congress Archives: Reel List, cont.

Reel 26
Selected FTUC affiliate files:
Federated Airline Staff Association, 1977-1979 [from Jan 1979, cont’ from reel 25]
Federated Airline Staff Association, 1979-1981
Federated Airline Staff Association, 1981-1984 (including report by Kewal Soeny, 
	USP, on human resource management at ATS Fiji Ltd, 1982.)
Federated Airline Staff Association, 1985-1988
Fiji Airport Workers Union, 1987

FTUC Women’s Wing, Executive Committee minute book, 1983-1988
FTUC Women’s Wing, Executive Committee minutes, 1992-1994
Diary of Ema Druasevi, Secretary, FTUC Women’s Wing, May-Jul 1987

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