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Unions and industrial relations in the new era.(Editorial)
WHAT IS HAPPENING to trade unions and the workforce? Certainly we know that union membership is continuing to decline--that is hard evidence derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force survey. But it also seems on the less reliable evidence (since they need further interpretation) of opinion surveys that there is considerable unhappiness in the workforce about the government's workplace legislation. What is the connection between the two?
It is clear that Sharan Burrow, the president of the ACTU, hasn't a clue as to what is really going on. Twelve months ago she confidently asserted that an increase in union membership much less significant than ...
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