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AWU
The Australian Workers' Union
Founded	1886; 138 years ago (1886)
Founded at	Ballarat, Victoria
Headquarters	Sydney, New South Wales
Location	Australia
Members	72,194 (as at 31 December 2022)^[1]
Key people	Paul Farrow, National Secretary
Affiliations	ACTU, ALP, ITF, IUF, IndustriALL
Website	AWU
known as AWU-FIMEE Amalgamated Union 1993-1995

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The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the late 1880s and it currently has approximately 80,000 members.

According to the moderately conservative publication, the Australian Financial Review, the AWU is one of the most powerful unions in the Labor Right faction of the Australian Labor Party.^[2]

^ "Membership size of registered organisations – 2023" (PDF). Fair Work Commission. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
^ Marin-Guzman, David (16 December 2018). "Inside the union factions that rule the ALP conference". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 6 August 2019.