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- Strike ballot for energy workers
- A strike by thousands of workers at oil refineries and power stations including Sellafield moved closer yesterday after unions gave seven days' notice of a ballot on industrial action.The move was the latest in a grinding row between employers and workers over jobs and conditions in the engineering construction...
- External links 2009-08-04
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- Restructuring of work and union representation: A developing framework for workplace industrial relations in Britain and Italy
- Autoworkers and unions in Italy and Britain A developing framework for workplace industrial relations in Britain and Italy This paper explores the implications of teamwork for trade unions, especially the assumption that new management strategies supporting teamwork may lead to the marginalisation of union organisation and influence. The fieldwork involves...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- The demise of the national union in Italy: lessons for comparative industrial relations theory.
- Much of prevailing industrial relations theory rests on the premise that there exist different "national models" of industrial relations. Underlying this premise are three distinct but interrelated assumptions: that national borders are synonymous with the scope of markets; that national unions are necessary to cope...
- Research articles 1992-01-01
- Worldwide Guide to Trade Unions and Work Councils.
- Worldwide Guide to Trade Unions and Work Councils, published by CCH, Inc. (Riverwoods, IL), is a hardbound book designed as a reference to help multinational corporations manage industrial relations on an international basis. Written by attorneys wit Worldwide Guide to Trade Unions and Work Councils, published...
- Research articles 2000-12-31
- Reckoning with company unions: the case of Thompson Products, 1934-1964. (Labor History and Industrial Relations: a Symposium)
- RECKONING WITH COMPANY UNIONS: THE CASE OF THOMPSON PRODUCTS, 1934-1964 COMPANY unions were a controversial personnel and union-avoidance strategy of American employers during the 1920s and 1930s. Yet, the strategy came to be viewed as a failure because most company unions either...
- Research articles 1989-10-01
- Unions using activism for influence.
- Feb 14, 2006 (Superfunds - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The University of Melbourne's Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation has released research into trade unions. Based on the...
- Research articles 2006-02-14
- Hold the phone, industrial calm can't last.
- Byline: Mark Skulley May 26, 2009 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New industrial relations legislation allows for bargaining from a new base without political baggage. This will restart the negotiations between unions and Telstra. Analysts see this...
- Research articles 2009-05-26
- Close ties? "Absolutely", say unions.
- Sep 18, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- The collapsed Australian airline Ansett Australia and its parent Air New Zealand NZ were closely connected. In September 2001, Australian trade union lawyers have appeared before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission IRC. The...
- Research articles 2001-09-17
- Merck settles with three unions - Merck and Company Inc - Developments in Industrial Relations
- Merck & Co., Inc. and three unions reached agreement on 3-year master and local contracts covering some 2,000 workers at six pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The three unions that were signatories to the contracts were Local 1389 of the Clothing and Textile Workers; Locals...
- Research articles 1991-08-01
- Unions worried by AIRC decision.
- Byline: Steve Creedy Apr 27, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian aircraft engineers hold concerns about an industrial relations ruling. The Australian Industrial Relations Commission ruled that Qantas's decision to move heavy aircraft maintenance from Sydney to Avalon in Victoria...
- Research articles 2006-04-27
- Air traffic controllers agree to two-week moratorium on industrial action.
- Mar 22, 2002 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- Airservices Australia and several unions representing air traffic controllers will spend two weeks in industrial talks in 2002. Appearing before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, the parties have promised to enter into negotiations concerning...
- Research articles 2002-03-21
- Strike averted at AT&T - American Telephone & Telegraph Co - Industrial Relations
- Negotiators for the American Telephone Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and its two major unions--the Communications Workers of America CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW--averted a threatened strike when they reached tentative agreement on new 3-year master contracts covering some 110,000 workers nationwide. Terms of the pacts, which are...
- Research articles 1995-09-01
- Philips lighting - four unions - developments in industrial relations
- Philips Lighting-four unions
- Research articles 1989-07-01
- Unions to coordinate 1989 bargaining with AT&T - Developments in Industrial Relations
- Unions to coordinate 1989 bargaining with AT&T
- Research articles 1988-03-01
- Unions vow to wage grassroots IR battle.
- Byline: Mark Skulley and Mark Davis Dec 04, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Senate has passed the controversial industrial relations IR legislation. ...
- Research articles 2005-12-04
- Detroit newspapers - five unions - Developments in Industrial Relations
- Detroit newspapers--five unionsAfter intermittent contract talks that began late November, five unions, representing about 3,000 workers, ratified 2 1/2-year accords with the Detroit Newspaper Agency, which bargains for The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press. Negotiations began as a result of a recent Supreme Court ruling affirming a lower...
- Research articles 1990-03-01
- Unions to test firms' wider sacking power.
- Byline: Adrian Rollins Jan 16, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Unions fear that a decision by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission AIRC could end unfair-dismissal cases against big companies. The new WorkChoices legislation already exempts organisations with...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- Safety program revamped at Bath Iron Works - Developments in Industrial Relations
- Safety program revamped at Bath Iron Works Labor relations at Bath Iron Works took a turn for the better when the shipbuilding firm and three unions cooperated in a revamping of the safety program that boded well for mid-1988 bargaining on wages and benefits, in contrast with 1985, when...
- Research articles 1988-04-01
- Nationwide protests against industrial reforms in Australia
- SYDNEY AFP — Tens of thousands of Australians have rallied against controversial industrial relations laws, temporarily bringing parts of the country's major cities to a halt. Organisers estimated more than 100,000 people marched at 200 venues around the country in a national day of action against workplace laws enacted by...
- Research articles 2006-11-29
- Burrup industrial unrest simmering.
- Nov 24, 2002 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Western Australian WA Government has called on the Australian Government to intervene in a Burrup Peninsula union dispute. The dispute has erupted over an industrial relations agreement regarding the unions involved in the...
- Research articles 2002-11-25
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