Solidarity reconstructed: The impact of the Accord on relations within the Australian union movement

Unions’ strength and identity is determined primarily by the extent to which they can nurture effective solidarity amongst wage earners in general and between networks of unions in particular. The experience of inter-union coordination throughout the Accord years has strengthened political solidarit...

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Published in:Journal of industrial relations 2014-04, Vol.56 (2), p.288-307
Main Authors: Buchanan, John, Oliver, Damian, Briggs, Chris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Australia
Bargaining
Coordination
Enterprises
Industrial relations
Labor unions
Labour relations
Leadership
Political behavior
Solidarity
Studies
Trade union membership
Trade unions
Wages and salaries
Working life
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Summary:Unions’ strength and identity is determined primarily by the extent to which they can nurture effective solidarity amongst wage earners in general and between networks of unions in particular. The experience of inter-union coordination throughout the Accord years has strengthened political solidarity across the movement (demonstrated most recently in the 2007 Your Rights at Work campaign). The movement’s industrial solidarity has been in secular decline since the peak union leadership enthusiastically embraced enterprise bargaining in the final phase of the Accord in the early 1990s. The key challenge for unions today is to broaden the ambit of political solidarity and to revitalise industrial solidarity in an era of increasing workforce diversity and working life transformation.
ISSN:0022-1856
1472-9296
DOI:10.1177/0022185613514976