The Victorian Trades Hall Council is a representative body of trade union organisations, known as a Labour council, in the State of Victoria, Australia. It includes 60 affiliated Trade Unions and Professional Associations, and eight Victorian regional Trades and Labour Councils.
The eight regional Trades and Labour Councils of Victoria are Ballarat Regional, Bendigo, Geelong and Region, Gippsland, Goulburn Valley, Mallee Murray, North-East and Border and South West.
Affiliation to the Council is open to any industrial organisation of employees with at least 20 financial members. Delegates from affiliated organisations are elected to meet as the Victorian Trades Hall Council. There is an annual conference to set policy, with monthly Council Meetings, and an Executive which meets more often to administer the affairs between council meetings, particularly matters of an urgent nature.
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