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While the issues within one of Australia’s most powerful unions need urgently addressing, fixing the conditions that keep women out of the industry looms as a much larger problem.
The Fair Work Commission’s general manager, Murray Furlong, is moving for the appointment of administrators into the construction division of the CFMEU, following a string of allegations.
Labor’s national executive will meet on Thursday to deal with requests to suspend the union’s affiliations in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
By Monday morning the CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith had put the Victorian branch into administration.
When Labour has gained power, these three problems have reared their heads.
Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
The picket lines have brought surprising levels of success.
Paid domestic work has a low status in South Africa. The labour of domestic workers is often undervalued and unrecognised.
Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
Since 2011, I’ve worked in more than 20 precarious workplaces in hospitality, manufacturing and logistics – and I have only seen a union once.
Most farmworkers were not even aware that the farm they worked on was Fairtrade certified.
While the scale of the strikes in both countries is historic, a scholar in employer relations notes the legislative conditions framing industrial action in the UK are much more restrictive.
France’s trade unions have managed to galvanise the largest movement in decades in opposition to pension reform. What will happen to them once the bill has been passed or abandoned?
Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
Australia’s protection, even celebration, of ‘free riders’ in industrial relations is driving union membership down to US levels.
Workers have filed the most union petitions since 2015 and the number of strikes have surged, but whether this turns into a sustained increase in membership rates is still unclear.
With everyone from rail workers to civil servants going on strike over the winter, it’s hard to see this ending well.
Poor staffing means poor care, and poor care costs taxpayers more.
From unions and ballots to picket-lines and sympathy strikes.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Affiliate Research Associate, School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Associate Tutor, University of Surrey
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior lecturer, University of Edinburgh
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Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Employment Relations, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Principal Lecturer (Programmes) - Humanities and Social Sciences, Teesside University
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Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
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Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds
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Professor of Development Studies, University of Fort Hare
