Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union

FSPDU
Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia
Deregistered	Members joined MUA and AMWU
Founded	1900
Dissolved	1 December 1993
Headquarters	Balmain, New South Wales
Location	Australia;

The Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union (FSPDU) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1900 and 1993. It represented labourers in the shipbuilding industry, covering "mostly work associated with chipping, painting, scrubbing [and] cleaning [ships], working in every size of tanks, cleaning boilers, docking and undocking vessels, and rigging work".^[1]

^ Wynner, Issy (2003). "Chapter One: BALMAIN AND THE UNION'S SECOND LAUNCHING". My Union Right or Wrong: A history of the Ship Painters and Dockers Union 1900-1932. Takver. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

[Wynner-1] Wynner, Issy (2003). "Chapter One: BALMAIN AND THE UNION'S SECOND LAUNCHING". My Union Right or Wrong: A history of the Ship Painters and Dockers Union 1900-1932. Takver. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

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