Australian Trade Unionism in 1984

Burgmann, Meredith

doi:10.1177/002218568502700108

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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.…”

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

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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%