The Fair Work Bill does assist workers in bargaining. Where an employer refuses to bargain with its employees a union can ask FWA to determine if majority support exists for negotiating an enterprise agreement. If so, the employer will be required to bargain collectively with its employees in good faith. There is no doubt that [...]
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ICTUR 2009
I am in London and met Daniel Blackburn the Director of the ICTUR, the International Committee on Trade Unipn Rights at their Internationa Office. Iasked: What are the priorities of ICTUR’s work? Without question the trade union rights situation in Colombia remains the most serious in the world. Miguel Puerto, a Colombian human rights lawyer [...]
Acting PM backs business.
The Acting DPM has brushed aside union threats to mount a case against her workplace reforms in the world’s top labour forum the ILO, when she knows her Fair Work Bill is in breach of minimum labour standards. The PM in his sppech in Parliament in 2005 attacked the breaches of the ILO with WorkChoices [...]
MPs pattern bargain but not workers
In the Financial Review yesterday, DPM Gillard remains tough in Labor’s crack-down on pattern bargaining. Pattern bargaining – industry-wide industrial action in pursuit of an industry agreement or identical enterprise agreements – is like workChoices specifically prohibited by her Bill (sections 412 and 422). Her “Fair” Work Bill retains all of the WorkChoices repressive regime [...]
Labor’s Education Counter-Revolution
LABOR’S EDUCATION COUNTER-REVOLUTION by Rob Durbridge, AEU Federal Industrial Officer State and Territory Labor governments are “pattern bargaining†against the AEU and its associated state unions to remove education quality guarantees from industrial agreements. Howard’s Workchoices proscribed staffing guarantees as unlawful; Minister Gillard recently announced that the new IR laws will proscribe matters which don’t [...]
Labor keeps WorkChoices restrictions on the right to strike
WorkChoices unfair restrictions on the right to strike is retained in the ‘Fair’ Work Bill. The analysis I presented posted under the heading of ‘right to strike’ applies, see feature ‘Government to deny the right to strike’. This is at a time politically when strikes are at their lowest historically and not an issue. The [...]
Ewing advice on labour law
Professor Keith Ewing, UK and international labour law expert, compares and contrasts labour law reforms bewteen UK in the Blair years and Australia’s proposed Fair Work Australia. Catalyst and AIER had Professor Ewing addressing meetings in Australia ‘Restoring Rights at Work: Lessons from the UK’. A summary paper from Professor Keith Ewing has been uploaded [...]
Avoid UK labour law pitfalls
King’s College professor of law Keith Ewing drew parallels between Australia and the UK experience following the introduction of new union recognition laws by the Blair Government in his speech to the seminar. He said that while the new laws had been intended to facilitate collective bargaining, the proportion of UK workers now covered by [...]
Unions are fun
Robert Day, a branch secretary with the British public sector PCS in Birmingham, is the winner of the first-ever Labour Photo of the Year competition organized by LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. Day’s photo — entitled ‘Trade Unions are Fun!’ — shows trade unionists marching through Birmingham, led [...]
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