Vehicle Builders' Employees' Federation of Australia

VBEF

Full name	Vehicle Builders' Employees' Federation of Australia
Founded	1863
Date dissolved	1993
merged into	Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
Members	52,000 (1976)[1]
Affiliation	ALP, ACTU, International Metalworkers' Federation, Workers' Educational Association[1]
Office location	70 Drummond St, Carlton Victoria[1]
Country	Australia

The Vehicle Builders' Employees' Federation of Australia (VBEF) was an Australian trade union which existed between 1863 and 1993. It was an industrial union which represented all employees in the vehicle industry and automotive parts manufacturing industry.

History

In the late 1890s the Coach-Makers' society was formed as a union in the horse-drawn coach building industry. In 1917 it registered as the Australian Coach Motor Car Tram Car Waggon Builders Wheelwrights and Rolling Stock Makers Employees' Federation. In 1930 it reregistered under the even more cumbersome name of the Australian Coach Motor Car Tram Car Waggon Builders Wheelwrights & Air Craft Rolling Stock Makers Employees’ Federation. In 1938 it changed its name to the much simpler Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation. In 1993 the VBEF merged with the Metals and Engineering Workers Union to form the Automotive Metals & Engineering Union.

References

1. Huntley, Pat (1980). Inside Australia's Top 100 Unions. Middle Cove, NSW: Ian Huntley (Aust.). pp. 305–308. ISBN 0-9598507-4-0.