Unions and Union Membership in New Zealand: Annual Review for 1994

1970 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Harbridge ◽  
Kevin Hince ◽  
Anthony Honeybone
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Union Decline

This note reports our n1ost recent survey of unions and union membership in New Zealand for the year ended 31 December 1994. It builds on our earlier surveys for the 31 December years for 1991, 1992 and 1993 (Harbridge and Hince, 1993a, 1993b; Harbridge, Hince and Honeybone. 1994). In last year's report, we suggested that union decline may have "bottomed out". The 1994 data does not support that suggestion. Unions have lost a further 33,000 men1bers in the most recent year, while the nun1ber of unions operating has increased by 15.

scholarly journals RESEARCH NOTE: Unions and Union Membership in New Zealand: Annual Review for 1995

1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Crawford ◽  
Raymond Harbridge ◽  
Kevin Hince
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Household Labour

This note reports our most recent survey of unions and union membership in New Zealand for the year ended 31 December 1995. It builds on our earlier surveys for the 31 December years for 1991-1994. The pattern already firmly established of declining union membership has continued with unions losing a further 13,700 members in the most recent year. This represents a decline of 3.6 percent over the number of union members at 31 December 1994. These losses occur at a time when the workforce (as measured by the Household Labour Force Survey) continues to grow and accordingly union density has fallen more sharply than has union membership itself.

scholarly journals Unions and Union Membership in New Zealand: Annual Review for 2004

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leda Blackwood ◽  
Goldie Feinberg-Danieli ◽  
George Lafferty
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
Official Data

This paper reports the results of Victoria University's Industrial Relations Centre's annual survey of trade union membership in New Zealand for 2004. The survey has been conducted since 1991, when the Employment Contracts Act 1991 (ECA) ended the practice of union registration and the collection of official data. This year we report changes in union membership, composition, and density from December 2003 to December 2004, taking an historical perspective to compare the industrial relations periods framed by the ECA and the Employment Relations Act 2000 (ERA).

scholarly journals Unions and Union Membership in New Zealand: Annual Review for 1993

1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Harbridge ◽  
Kevin Hince ◽  
Anthony Honeybone
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
The Past ◽  
Percent Concentration

Unionism in New Zealand has undergone fundamental changes over the past decade. These changes are both quantitative and qualitative. Specific aspects of these changes include a decrease in the number of unions (from 259 in 1985 to 67 in 1993), a decrease in the number of union members (from 683,006 in 1985 to 409,112 in 1993) and a decrease in union density (from 66 percent to 43 percent). Concentration of membership in fewer larger unions and an increase in average union size (from 2,637 in 1985 to 6,106 in 1993) are other quantifiable dimensions of these changes.

scholarly journals Managerial views on compulsory unionism in New Zealand

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Geare
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The Impact

The New Zealand industrial relations literature contains a number of propositions concerning the impact or desirability of having compulsory union membership. This paper discusses the propositions, and reports on the response of a sample of 461 New Zealand managers, examining the significance of their attitudes.

Delivering Organizational Change in Partnership With Trade Unions

2019 ◽  
pp. 387-397
Author(s):  
Gaye A. Greenwood ◽  
Carolyn Ward
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Case History ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Union Leaders

This case history offers an insiders' view of bringing about change in union bargaining within major New Zealand organizations. While unions play a pivotal role in the day-to-day bargaining of wages and workplace conditions, there has been a significant reduction in union density and membership. In this case, two union leaders narrate how a shift from traditional bargaining to interest-based negotiation enabled participation in organizational change decision-making, built trust in relationships, and increased union membership.

US union revival, minority unionism and inter-union conflict

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 653-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Harcourt ◽  
Helen Lam ◽  
Geoffrey Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Minority Representation ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Legislative Change ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Union Support ◽  
Union Decline ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Union Competition

One option for reversing US union decline, requiring no legislative change, would involve re-legitimizing non-majority or minority union representation, allowing unions to organize without running the gauntlet of union certification. Such minority representation, applicable only to workplaces without majority union support on a members-only basis, could run in parallel with the existing system of exclusive representation in workplaces where majority support is achieved. The increased representation in the currently unrepresented workplaces would inevitably promote workers’ collective voice and contribute to union revival. However, minority unionism has been criticized for breeding union competition because it is non-exclusive. In this paper, the nature and extent of inter-union conflict under minority unionism are re-examined, using survey data from unions in New Zealand which already has non-exclusive, minority union representation. The low levels and consequences of conflict suggest that the benefits of minority unionism far outweigh any potentially unfavourable effects.

W(h)ither Australian Unions?

1991 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Plowman
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Union Decline

Recent years have seen Australian unions suffer major membership losses. Unions now represent only 46 per cent of the workforce and less than one third of the private sector workforce. The paper examines union membership trends and analysis the appropriate environment, structures and strategies for addressing union decline.

Union Membership Decline in New Zealand, 1990—2002

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Charlwood ◽  
Peter Haynes
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Membership Decline
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