The Communication Workers Union of Australia is a trade union in Australia. It is a division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia.
It was formed in 1992 as a standalone Union following the merger of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association/Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers Association.
At the time of the merger the union had a membership of approximately 85,000.
In 1993 it absorbed the Telecommunications Officers Association (TOA).
The CWU amalgamated with the ETU and PPTEU to form the CEPU in 1994, thereafter becoming a division of the larger union.
The three CEPU Divisions largely operate autonomously, as separate entities, on a day to day basis, other than in Tasmania, where an amalgamated Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Branch operates as a single State Branch.
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National Divisional Office Central Branch (NSW/ACT/QLD/SA/NT/WA Tasmania Branch Victoria Branch