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Individual Contracts, Collective Bargaining, Wages and Power
No full textThis paper by David Peetz considers the evidence on the impact of individual contracts and collective bargaining on outcomes such as pay and conditions for employees and the implications for the distribution of power
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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
Essential service unionism and the new police industrial relations
No full textWe examine how an Australian police union boasting over 99 per cent density has resisted the trend of decline. The union historically eschewed arbitration and instead used political connections to achieve goals. The environment radically changed with a major corruption report and the introduction of new managerialist techniques. The union reconfigured relationships with management and government but still made use of political action to secure instrumental gains. It has structures and practices that promote perceptions of responsiveness. The union's support base is built on the foundation of a well-administered legal defence fund. Membership propensity is also a function of the union's general protective functions, its ability to secure benefits and a perception of union democracy. The implications for understanding essential service unionism relate to the political sensitivity of essential services, the nature of risk facing essential service employees, cultural aspects of essential service work as well as some implications common to all unions.Full Tex
Are Australian trade unions part of the solution, or part of the problem?
No full textThe failure of the modern economy to deliver widespread benefits for all is now widely recognised. Ordinary workers—those in the middle and lower parts of the income distribution—have limited access to resources and even more limited effective say. It was not ever thus, and the decline of unions is intimately connected with the rise of inequality. Can unions rise again? What would they need to do—and be, asks David Peetz in the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
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Are Australian trade unions part of the solution, or part of the problem?
No full textTo answer the question in the title, we must first identify ‘the problem’? The following
sections of this article then ask: How have Australian unions contributed to the
solution in the past? How are they now part of the problem? And how can they now
be part of the solution? In doing this, David Peetz seeks to bring together research by various
people (including himself) over the best part of two decades about the past and
present of unions, to help us understand whether they have a future.Griffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human ResourcesFull Tex
What determines coverage of collective agreements and awards?
No full textWage setting in Australia features a complex system of interdependencies between awards, collective agreements (CAs) and individual arrangements (IAs). How an employee comes to have their pay and conditions set has long been the subject of close study. In the context of recent declines in collective agreement coverage, the purpose of this article is to examine the influence of employee and employer characteristics on collective agreement coverage. The causes of that decline are not the topic of this paper, but the determinants of collective agreement coverage are, because of the substantial effects it has. Collective bargaining is commonly a way by which employees boost their power in order to obtain higher pay and better conditions and better treatment at work and is a mechanism by which wage inequality is reduced (Jackson, A and Schellenberg, 1999; Peetz, 2006; International Labour Office, 2016). Understanding the factors that encourage it can facilitate our understanding of the factors shaping those outcomes.Full Tex
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Youth, Crime, and the Responses of the State
No full textThe paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand, and the related security policies of the three states, on the other. In each country, there is an idiosyncratic way of constructing youth violence and juvenile delinquency. Also, each country has its own manner of reaction to those problems. In El Salvador youths are socially constructed as a threat to security, and the state implements predominantly repressive policies to protect citizens against that threat. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where the social discourse on youth violence is less prominent, the state's policies are neither very accentuated nor very coherent, whether in terms of repressive or nonrepressive measures. There are strong relations and mutual influences between the public's fear (or disregard) of youth violence and the state's policies to reduce it.Central America, youth violence, security policies, discourse analysis
Brave New Workplace: How Individual Contracts are Changing our Jobs
No full textThe push for individual contracts for employees overturns a century of collective efforts to create basic rights and a 'fair go' in Australian workplaces. David Peetz delves underneath the layers of corporate and government doublespeak that surround this most heated issue to uncover what is really happening in relations between employers and employees. He explains who benefits from individual contracts and who doesn't, and how this will change the way we work. He locates individual workplace contracts in a wider debate about whether we are moving away from collective ideals towards individualistic values. From offices to shops, schools, hospitals and mines, individual contracting affects every single employee in Australia. Brave New Workplace is compelling reading for anyone who wants to understand the brave new world of work.Griffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human ResourcesNo Full Tex
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