Australian Trade Unionism in 1983

Burgmann, Meredith

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“…Unions put aside their previous rivalries. Those that did not, such as the Food Preservers Union in 1983 (Burgmann, 1984: 91), the Builders Labourers Federation in 1984 (Burgmann, 1985: 82) and the Australian Federation of Air Pilots in 1989 (Spooner, 1990: 139), were ostracised. This process of inter-union coordination continued from the commencement of the Accord until its end with the defeat of the Keating government in 1996.…”

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Solidarity reconstructed: The impact of the Accord on relations within the Australian union movement

Buchanan

Oliver

Briggs³

2014

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Unions’ strength and identity is determined primarily by the extent to which they can nurture effective solidarity amongst wage earners in general and between networks of unions in particular. The experience of inter-union coordination throughout the Accord years has strengthened political solidarity across the movement (demonstrated most recently in the 2007 Your Rights at Work campaign). The movement’s industrial solidarity has been in secular decline since the peak union leadership enthusiastically embraced enterprise bargaining in the final phase of the Accord in the early 1990s. The key challenge for unions today is to broaden the ambit of political solidarity and to revitalise industrial solidarity in an era of increasing workforce diversity and working life transformation.

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Section: Understanding the Accord: Three Phases And An Underlying Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Solidarity reconstructed: The impact of the Accord on relations within the Australian union movement

Buchanan

Oliver

Briggs³

2014

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Silencing Dissent to Win Consent: National Training Reform in the Accord Years

Brown

2004

Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic rel

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The Authority of the ACTU

Griffin¹

1994

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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Most studies of the role of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) have argued that the peak-council has traditionally had little if any authority over its affiliates. This paper contends that this situation changed during the 1980s and that the ACTU achieved a significant degree of internal union authority. Examples of such authority are documented and the combination of external factors, such as the political and economic environment, and internal factors, such as leadership and reduced factionalism, that contributed to this growth of authority are analysed.

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Australian Trade Unionism in 1983

Cited by 3 publications

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Solidarity reconstructed: The impact of the Accord on relations within the Australian union movement

Solidarity reconstructed: The impact of the Accord on relations within the Australian union movement

Silencing Dissent to Win Consent: National Training Reform in the Accord Years

The Authority of the ACTU

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