Errol Raymond Hodder (born 4 September 1938), former Queensland branch secretary of the

Australian Workers' Union 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 1880s and currently has approximately 80,000 members. It has exerci ...

(1982-1988), general secretary of the

(1987-1991) and retired Commissioner of the

Australian Industrial Relations Commission The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), known from 1956 to 1973 as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and from 1973 to 1988 as the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, was a tribunal with powers ...

(1991-2003) and of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (1997-2003). Hodder worked in western Queensland as a wool presser during the 1956 Shearer's Strike and later as a shearer. He was a member of the AWU from 1969 to 1991. He was South Western District Secretary from 1971 to 1982. In 1982, he became Queensland Branch Secretary of the AWU and Senior Queensland Vice-President of the

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. He led the rebuilding of the AWU's influence within the Labor Party, allying with the Socialist Left faction in 1985 and taking control of the Queensland Branch from the "Old Guard" in 1987. This contributed directly to

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's political successful state election campaign in December 1989. In 1988 Hodder was appointed General Secretary of the AWU. Hodder was elected Junior ACTU Vice-President in 1989. Hodder was required to resign from all union and political offices to take office as Commissioner of the AIRC in 1991.

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