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CFMEU Mining and Energy has a range of books and DVDs available for purchase. We do not accept payments on line, but you can make an order and we will contact you by phone for payment.

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Last Stand at Nymboida
Last Stand at Nymboida

Price: $25.00 incl postage

The film of the story of the historic work-in and take-over of the Nymboida Colliery in NSW by 30 underground mineworkers who refused to accept the sack back in 1975.

DVD 56 mins.

Promoting Good Faith Bargaining
Promoting Good Faith Bargaining

Price: $25.00 incl postage

The Fair Work Act 2009 imposes a legal obligation to bargain in “good faith”. But what does that actually mean? Authors Alex Bukarica and Andrew Dallas explore this question in the context of lessons from  Canada and New Zealand.

Paperback; 127pp

Holding the Line
Holding the Line

Price: $25.00 incl postage

A narrative history of Australian coal  miners and their union in the 1980s.
By coal mining historian Alan Murray.

Harcover; 370pp; photographs.

The Coal Mines the Workers Ran
The Coal Mines the Workers Ran

Price: $10.00 incl postage

From Nymboida to United: a remarkable chapter in Australia’s industrial history.
By Pete Thomas and Paddy Gorman.

Paperback; 143pp; Photographs.

At the Coalface
At the Coalface

Price: $30.00 incl postage

The human face of coal miners and their communities: an oral history of the early days.

Hardcover; 185pp. Handsomely produced and illustrated with many historic photographs.

The Coalminers of Queensland Vol. 2
The Coalminers of Queensland

Price: $55.00 incl postage

Greg Mallory has brought together 8 essays by the late, great Pete Thomas. They describe the working and living conditions of coalminers and their families in central Queensland from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s.

Hardcover; 473pp; photographs.

Lockout
Lockout

Price: $35.00 incl postage

Jim Comerford’s eyewitness account of Australia’s most violent industrial conflict – the Northern NSW Coal Lockout of 1929.
Hardcover; 536pp; photographs.

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