Australian Maritime Unions and Flag of Convenience Vessels

1991 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-339
Author(s):  
Clifford B. Donn ◽  
G. Phelan
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
New South ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
International Transport ◽  
Transport Workers ◽  
Flag Of Convenience ◽  
Coal Trade

The purpose of this paper is to update Kingsley Laffer's 1977 Journal of Industrial Relations article on the policies of Australian trade unions with respect to flag of convenience vessels. Australian unions have supported the campaign against such vessels initiated by the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF). After detailing the process by which the maritime unions become aware of whether or not a flag of convenience vessel is operating under the conditions established by the ITF, the paper goes on to examine two disputes involving flag of convenience vessels. The first, in 1977, was a ban by the Seamen's Union of Australia on coal ships operated by Utah Development Company; the second, in 1981, was a ban by several unions on the use of flag of convenience vessels in the coal trade in New South Wales. The paper discusses these disputes and offers an evaluation of the unions' activities in the general ITF campaign.

Up the Garden Path? Enterprise Bargaining and Decentralization in the NSW Public Sector

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
New South ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
Garden Path ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Impact

Decentralizing industrial relations within New South Wales is a central recom mendation of the Niland Green Paper (1989). Decentralism also represents the cornerstone of the New South Wales government's industrial relations reform agenda enshrined in the New South Wales Industrial Relations Act 1991. To date there has been little analysis of the impact o f this legislative change on industrial relations in the New South Wales public sector. This paper provides a case study that examines the degree to which responsibility for bargaining has been devolved within the Parks and Gardens of the New South Wales Ministry for the Environ ment. It argues that, in contrast to the rhetoric of the New South Wales Act, the central agency presiding over the introduction of enterprise bargaining in the public sector, the Public Employment and Industrial Relations Authority; has been reluctant to delegate responsibility to parties in the workplace.

The New South Wales Public Service Industrial Relations System

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan K. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
New South ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Wage Adjustment

Despite the growing overseas interest in public sector industrial relations this field has received very little attention in Australia. Using Dunlop's "systems" approach this paper analyses industrial relations in the N.S.W. Public Service with the intention of comparing industrial relations in this public sector with the situation prevailing in most private sectors. Firstly, the legal and economic frameworks within which the system operates are examined and this is followed by an investigation of the relevant unions and the employer group. Then, attention is focused on the wage adjustment procedures: negotiation and arbitration. The analysis reveals that this public sector industrial relations system pos sesses a number of features of considerable analytical interest: features which clearly differentiate it from the systems common to the private sector.

Management, the Labour Process and Contract Labour in New South Wales Road Transport, 1960-70

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bray ◽  
Malcolm Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Indirect Control ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Union Action ◽  
The 1960S

Recent literature on management strategy is drawn upon to analyse managemnt initiatives in New South Wales road transport during the 1960s. In this industry, t strong competition of the time, combined with union action that raised labour cos led to managers both increasing direct control over wage labour within the labo process and switching to indirect control methods through the use of contract labo Three main points emerge from the case-study. The first is the importance of analysi management's choice of industrial relations strategy in the wider context of prodi market and technological contingencies. Second, the growth of contract labour provic a reminder that management does not inevitably respond to competition by assumi greater direct control within the labour process. The third is the valuable insights in industrial relations that can be gained by forusing on management and strategic chol

Negotiating labour standards in the gig economy: Airtasker and Unions New South Wales

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Minter
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Labour Standards

The ‘gig economy’ uses digital platforms to bypass many of the regular responsibilities and costs of employment. Ambiguity as to whether gig-economy workers are independent contractors, dependent contractors or employees allows the undermining of traditional labour standards governing minimum wages and other legislated employment conditions. Labour law and institutions need to catch up to the new reality of this form of work and develop new tools to protect and enhance minimum standards for workers in digital platform businesses. Unions, business and government all have a role to play in the long term. Meanwhile, direct engagement between these new firms and workers’ advocates can also help to mitigate the risks posed to labour standards by digital business models, by addressing regulatory gaps. This article is a case study of innovative negotiations between one platform business (Airtasker) and Unions New South Wales, a peak trade unions body in New South Wales, Australia, in order to establish agreed minimum standards for engagements negotiated through this platform.

Shop Committees in the New South Wales Railways

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Warburton
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Central Council ◽  
Disastrous Effect ◽  
General Strike

As early as 1934 the shop committees in the New South Wales railways were beginning to acquire the characteristics of a cohesive industrial force. An important factor in their development up to this time was the disastrous effect for Labor of the general strike in 1917 in the railways. The shop com mittees did not seek to replace the existing structures of trade unionism but to coexist with them. At the same time the authority and influertce of the movement depended in part on maintaining a measure of independence from the union hierarchy. This led to an uneasy relationship between the shop committees and some trade unions which climaxed with the expulsion of the Central Council of Railway Shop Committees from "observer" status represen tation at meetings of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council.

The Operation of Western Australian Unions and the Prospects for Collective Bargaining

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.F. Dufty
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New South ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Third Party ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
Current Provision

In an attempt to analyse the dealings of unions and management in Western Australia and to compare those findings with an earlier study in New South Wales, the author has conducted a direct negotiation survey utilising an inter view schedule developed for the New South Wales study. Union characteristics, especially the job of the union secretary, are examined in the light of the present conduct of direct negotiation in Western Australia. In attempting to gauge the prospects for the future development of collective bargaining, the author presents findings on the level of union resources, the degree of cohesive- ness of negotiating units, the likelihood of commitment to an agreement once it is signed and the current provision of third party neutrals within the Western Australian industrial relations system. The conclusion is that Western Australian unions operate largely within the State system and that direct negotiation is increasing despite difficulties over the lack of "industrial muscle", union size, union multiplicity and the lack of union resources. The data indicate that a number of steps need to be taken to provide a more comprehensive framework for the movement towards collective bargaining.

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