Seminar participants from left to right are: Peter Gahan, Richard Mitchell, Joe Isaac, Keith Ewing, Guy Standing, Greg Bamber, Anthony Forsyth, Marilyn Pittard
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The Rudd Government's substantive reform legislation will soon be introduced into Federal Parliament. The centrepiece of the new legislation will be the statutory collective bargaining framework, based on the principles of 'majority employee support' in the workplace and 'good faith bargaining'.
Australia can learn a great deal from the UK experience, where collective bargaining rights founded on a statutory union recognition procedure have operated for the last 10 years. But how successful have these laws been in extending collective bargaining coverage, and redressing the declining fortunes of trade unions?
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A select group of academics, policy experts and IR practitioners took part in the roundtable discussion of these issues, led by Professor Keith Ewing of Kings College London. Professor Ewing has written extensively on union recognition, collective bargaining and international employment standards in the UK and Europe.
WCLRG is a research concentration in the Department of Business Law & Taxation at Monash University. It has been in operation since March 2008, having previously operated as the Corporate Law and Accountability Research Group (CLARG). Further details are available at: www.buseco.monash.edu.au/blt/clarg/; or contact WCLRG’s Director,
Dr Anthony Forsyth, at Anthony.Forsyth@buseco.monash.edu.au.
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