The Trend of Industrial Disputes, 1922–1930

1932 ◽  
Vol 27 (178) ◽  
pp. 168-172
Author(s):  
H. M. Douty
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Disputes

The Settlement of Industrial Disputes. Kurt Braun

1946 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-189
Author(s):  
Lloyd H. Bailer
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Disputes

The Stockpile Thesis and Industrial Relations at Kambalda

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-366
Author(s):  
Helen Lang
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Nickel Mining ◽  
Industrial Disputes ◽  
Strategic Variable ◽  
Consensual Approach

Some recent work on industrial relations in the Australian minirtg industry has focused on a close relationship between the incidence of strikes and the stockpiling of the mineral mined. It is argued that when demand for a mineral falls and the stockpile grows, management can afford the disruption to production caused by strikes. Hence management will take action to provoke strikes by introducing changes in work practices it knows will be opposed by unionists. Not only are the unions more likely to be defeated, but the company concerned is also able to reduce the size of its stockpile of ore. A case-study of the nickel-mining centre of Kambalda in Western Australia suggests that the size of the stockpile isfar less relevant when management and unions have a consensual approach to industrial relations. The stockpile is a strategic variable rather than a cause of industrial disputes. Whether the stockpile is manipulated as part of management's strategy will depend on innumerable, interdependent factors, including the organization of social life in a mining town and whether effective co operative relations develop between managers and unions.

The Genesis of Arbitration in Western Australia

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman F. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
The Political ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Compulsory Arbitration ◽  
Industrial Disputes ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

The use of compulsory arbitration for the determination of the conditions of employment has a long history in Australia. This paper covers the events leading up to the introduction of legislation for conciliation and for the compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes in Western Australia. After two bruising strikes and the experience of successful voluntary arbitration, the union movement came to the view that compulsory arbitration would be to their advantage. The development of political links between the unions and some members of the Legislative Assembly, coupled with certain fortuitous circumstances in the Parliament, resulted in arbitration legislation being passed in 1900—despite the dominance of the political scene by conservative forces and the opposition of the employers. Early experiences with the legislation showed that conciliation was not successful when arbitration was readily available and that the Act was not the answer to all the problems of the trade union movement.

Why Join? Why Stay? Instrumentality, Beliefs, Satisfaction and Individual Decisions on Union Membership

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Peetz
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Employee Perceptions ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Employee Trust ◽  
Industrial Disputes ◽  
Perceived Instrumentality ◽  
Individual Decisions

To understand individuals' union membership choices it is necessary to examine decisions both to join and to leave (exit) unions, observed when employees are in jobs where unions are available and there is freedom of choice on union membership (‘open’ jobs). Using multivariate analysis of survey data, it was found that sympathy towards unions was the most powerful influence upon union joining, but had little impact on union exit, which was more a function of the perceived instrumentality of membership. Employee perceptions on union in-fighting and cooperation with management influenced union membership, as did the outcome of involvement in industrial disputes. Satisfaction with union delegates was a key influence on attitudes and membership. Employee trust of management only influenced exit behaviour through its interaction with satisfaction with union delegates. Job satisfaction had a complex relationship with union membership that is disguised in aggregated studies.

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
R. W. B.
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Disputes

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-57
Author(s):  
M. R. F.
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Disputes

Not a Penny off the Pay, Not a Second on the Day: Long-term Wage Settlement at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

2021 ◽  
pp. 097226292110331
Author(s):  
Girish Balasubramanian ◽  
Lalatendu Kesari Jena
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Relative Disadvantage ◽  
Wage Settlement ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Industrial Disputes

This case study presents the delicately poised situation of the workers who were on strike, demanding better wages from their employer, during wage negotiations in India. It highlights the dispute resolution mechanisms, the rubric to evaluate the strike as well as whether wages are to be paid for the duration of the strike period within the framework of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, of India. This case study is based on the strike, which occurred in September 2019, during the wage settlement at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). It is developed completely from secondary and publicly available reports and information. The researchers have used the specific legislative framework of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, of India to understand certain practical aspects of the applications of the legislation. The major issues highlighted in this specific case study are the process outlined for the workers to go on a strike, rubric to evaluate a strike and whether wages are to be paid for the duration of the strike period. It is also a good case study to explore the strategies for effective collective bargaining when one is at a relative disadvantage as opposed to their opponents.

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