{"title":"Industrial Relations in Austria","authors":"Joseph Mire","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V6I3.2522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V6I3.2522","url":null,"abstract":"Austria's economic progress during the last twenty years has been most impressive, comparing favourably with other industrialised countries. Major credit is ascribed to the social partnership between labour and management, which extends to all areas of social and economic concern. Its most significant manifestation has been the adoption, in 1957, of an incomes policy, of voluntary wage and price restraint. The results have been: significant improvements in the standards of living; full employment; modest inflation; and an enviable record of industrial peace. The social partnership is supported by an understanding with the government, which allows the two major interest groups considerable freedom to carry out their commitments to wage and price restraint.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127883642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restoring Democracy to the Workplace? An Analysis of Union Membership Patters Before and After the Employment Contracts Act","authors":"C. Cregan, C. Rudd, Stewart Johnston","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V20I1.3263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V20I1.3263","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the impact of the Employment Contracts Act on trade union membership. Two separate surveys of labour market participants lvere conducted in Dunedin on the eve of the legislation and one year later. The findings demonstrated that for these samples, trade union membership in aggregate was not based on compulsion before the legislation and remained at a similar level a year later. Democracy was not restored to the workplace it was already apparent there. This implies that changes in the industrial relations system had already taken place prior to the legislation and it is suggested that these findings are explicable if the effect of the exigencies of the recession on both parries is taken account of In the ensuing discussion, reasons for the persistence of the same level of union membership after the legislation were considered. It was demonstrated that most members li'anted the union to act as their bargaining agent and felt few pressures regarding their choice of employment contract. In other words, employers did not utilise the provisions of the Act to weaken union membership, at least in the short term.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127964899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State coercion and public sector unionism in post-coup Fiji","authors":"J. Leckie","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V16I1.3098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V16I1.3098","url":null,"abstract":"The trade union movement played a pivotal role in the formation of the Fiji Labour Party, and later represented a potential source of organized opposition to the military regime which overthrew the Labour Government in 1987. This paper explores why the Fiji administration perceived organized labour as a threat and discusses the measures the military regime took to retain control by weakening any political role for unions. Much of the regime's energy in this respect has been directed towards the Fiji Public Service Association. Its leaders argue that the fundamental issue of trade union rights can not be guaranteed without the protection of human rights and a democratic framework in Fiji, neither of which is assured in the recently promulgated constitution.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125382249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracing the Similarities, Identifying the Differences: Women and the Employment Contracts Act","authors":"L. Hill, R. D. Plessis","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V18I1.3840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V18I1.3840","url":null,"abstract":"The world of trade union organisation has been a male dominated world. Men have headed the Federation of Labour and the Council of Trade Unions, and male secretaries have often represented unions with predominantly female members. The dominance of men was significantly challenged in the 1970s and 1980s by a number of women unionists, especially those representing occupational groups with a large female membership. The predominantly female unions which provided them with an organisational base have not until recently received much attention by researchers. As Janet Sayers has indicated, it is now time that the analysis of these unions \"should be a priority in labour relations research\" (Sayers, 1993: 219).","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123165622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to live with the law? The legislative attack on British trade unions since 1979","authors":"L. Dickens","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V14I1.3774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V14I1.3774","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes as its focus the labour legislation of the Conservative governments in Britain under Mrs. Thatcher since 1979. It locates the legislation in its broader context and examines three main prongs of what is seen as a legislative attack on the trade unions: the move away from collective industrial relations; the restricted terrain for lawful industrial action; and legal intervention in internal union affairs. The immediate impact, use of and response to this legislation is discussed and a broader question raised concerning whether, as well as having to adjust to the new legal framework, British trade unions are reappraising their attitude to the role of law in industrial relations more generally.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121620603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Meremere Coal Gang: A Study of a Multi-Cultural Work Gang","authors":"B. L. Mason, B. Cole","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V2I3.2442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V2I3.2442","url":null,"abstract":"The coal gang at the Meremere Power Station is responsible for the handling of all coal into the Station. Some coal is delivered by train, some by truck and some by an overhead (two cable) ropeway from the open cast mine at Maramarua. The coal gang accept the raw coal and either feed it through the crushers and screens into the bunkers or feed it out to the stock pile. They are also responsible for loading the buckets at the Maramarua end of the ropeway.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"49 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121005049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Zealand labour force participation: the ninety years to 1981","authors":"P. Revell, P. Brosnan","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V11I2.3587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V11I2.3587","url":null,"abstract":"This paper emanines labour force participation in New Zealand from l891 to 1981. It commences with a brief review of previous work in the area and then draws upon data from the New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings to investigate participation races. Age-specific data for Maoris, non-Maoris and Pacific Island Polynesians are analysed and male rates are compared with female rates. The paper concludes by identifying unresolved questions requiring further research.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116625135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediator Strategies in New Zealand: The Views of the Mediated","authors":"J. Howells, Susan H. Cathro","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V8I3.3544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V8I3.3544","url":null,"abstract":"Mediation is a process in which an impartial neutral (or a chairman with no right of decision) assists the disputants in settling their differences. The mediator's role is to facilitate voluntary agreements by the parties themselves; the parties' final decision is their own and not the mediator's. A mediator (and, for that matter, a conciliator in a dispute of interest) tries to persuade the disputants to reach a voluntary agreement by using strategies that fall short of outright arbitration. Because the philosophy and practice of mediation tend often to be misunderstood, this paper examines some of these strategies and the importance attached to them by employers and union officers. It offers some insight into what industrial relations practitioners consider to be the strategies most likely to lead to successful mediation.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121434771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Reflections on Developments in German Employee Codetermination Since 1976","authors":"B. Dive","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V5I2/3.2502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V5I2/3.2502","url":null,"abstract":"The latest German law on the codetermination of Supervisory Boards came into effect in July 1976. In one sense it was a major advance in the development of codetermination which some argue began 128 years previously when in 1848 the Constitutional National Assembly first established factory committees with certain rights of worker participation. It was also a compromise result of intensive political discussion and activity particularly in the period after Willy Brandt declared in 1973 that codetermination would be one of the 'main tasks' of his government. Germany industry has had a two-tier Board system since the 1880s. Under the provisions of the 1976 Act companies with more than 2,000 employees (481 enterprises in 1980) must have a Supervisory Board ('Aufsichtsrat') with equal representation for labour and capital, and an Executive Board ('Vorstard'). Under previous legislation (1952, 1972) the labour representation on the Supervisory Boards of joint stock companies (AG) had been limited to one third. The duties of the Supervisory Board include the appointment of the members of the Executive Board, one of whom must be a Labour Director (' Arbeitsdirektor').","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130116167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women at Work: Issues for the 1990s: Introduction to the Collection","authors":"R. Ryan","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V18I1.3837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V18I1.3837","url":null,"abstract":"The celebration of one hundred years of women's suffrage in New Zealand in 1993 has provided a welcome opportunity to undertake something of a \"stock-take\" of many aspects of women's participation in the social and economic life of New Zealand. Participation in the paid workforce is one of the most important of these, given the centrality of employment and work to social identity and economic well-being. The current re-assessment has, however, raised more questions than it has answered, given the rapidly changing social and economic environment in which women work. This includes the restructuring of the economy, the growth of the service sector, social policy changes in health and education, and the greater emphasis on market regulation of many areas previously subject to legislative regulation.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122708629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}