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The future of the unions.(Editorial)( Australian Labor Party)
Quadrant
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October 01, 2007 |
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ONE OF THE FEW crucial issues of the coming federal election must be what the outcome will mean for the future of the union movement. Related to this is the future of the Australian Labor Party. For years now the unions have been in decline from the historical peaks of their power and membership. Structural and generational changes in the economy have been rendering them of lesser and lesser interest to much of the workforce, while changes in labour market arrangements over the last twenty-five years have greatly reduced their once central role.
Their very success, or at least the success of social democratic reform, has also made them superfluous--where from the ...
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