{"title":"Statement by the New Zealand Industrial Relations Society Incorporated","authors":"P. Brosnan","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V8I2.3659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V8I2.3659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"77 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":"116180813","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":"Unions and Non-union Bargaining Agents under the Employment Contracts Act 1991: an Assessment after 12 Months","authors":"P. Boxall, P. Haynes","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V17I2.3325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V17I2.3325","url":null,"abstract":"This paper records a study of the impacts of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 (ECA) on unions and non-union bargaining agents. The assessment primarily relates to the first 12 months of the Act's operation but, where appropriate, does extrapolate certain trends into the foreseeable future. Both trade unions and non-union agents (alternative worker agents and employer agents) are discussed.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"35 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":"121189028","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":"Respresentative Cricketers in New Zealand: Prospects for Collective Bargaining","authors":"M. Ballard","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V20I1.3262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V20I1.3262","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined by postal questionnaire and focus group interview techniques, the propensity to unionise/collectivise and to bargain collectively with team management amongst a group of semi-professional representative provincial cricketers. The paper reports on causal factors associated with the propensity of these sportspeople to deal collectively with team management and the factors in team management and team circumstances acting to block effective action by the players.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"9 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":"116393459","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 Federation of Labour's right to bargain campaign: its background, impact and effectiveness","authors":"R. Harbridge, D. Edwards","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V10I3.3390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V10I3.3390","url":null,"abstract":"In a period where trade union organisation was persistently attacked by the Government and denied the right to industrial bargaining, union leaders of the 1980s have committed themselves to a widespread understanding of industrial and wider economic issues facing working people. Organisationally the Federation of Labour ( FoL) set out to achieve this through the development of the \"campaign\" strategy. The campaigns included meetings, rallies, and short industrial stoppages. The first of the campaigns took place in 1980 and the most recent in 1984. This research examines the 1984 FoL campaign - the right to bargain campaign - and reveals that it was one of New Zealand's largest ever single industrial disputes, with over 57 000 workers losing over 125 000 working days in less than 3 months. The extent of the campaign reflects the increased ability of the FoL to coordinate and direct a campaign in selected areas. The campaign came to an abrupt end when Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon, called an unscheduled General Election. This led the FoL to direct its efforts away from industrial stoppages and towards the election of a Labour Government. Labour won the 1984 election, winning particularly vvell in the major city centres. The authors hypothesise that the educative impact of the right to bargain campaign was in part responsible far that electoral victory and to that extent the carnpaign could be considered a success.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"22 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":"116521509","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 economic issues affecting public policy on disability","authors":"Verna Smith","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V16I3.3119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V16I3.3119","url":null,"abstract":"Economic perspectives of current public policy issues on disability are reviewed. The participation of people with disabilities in the labour market is discussed, with particular reference to the problem of information inadequacy. Different policy responses including equal employment opportunities, transitional and supported employment schemes, and dere.gulation of the labour market are considered. Income maintenance strategies, their adequacy and effect on vocational opportunity are reviewed. The role of insurance schemes in reducing the costs of disability is considered. Collective responses to the costs of disability are discussed.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"107 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":"116373985","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 Economics of wages and wages policy in the depression and recovery period: distinctive elements in the New Zealand debate, 1931- 1936","authors":"A. Endres","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V15I1.3485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V15I1.3485","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses distinctive features of the New Zealand debate on the economics of wages and wages policy from 1931 up to the restoration of compulsory arbitration in 1936. Local economic orthodoxy proffered advice which, consistent with Keynes (1936), turned on the need for a general real wage reduction effected mostly through currency devaluation, rather than through further money wage cuts. Dissenters were critical of currency devaluation; they stressed excessively generous unemployment relief, real wage 'overhang' and structural real wage distorttons. Tentative estimates of both aggregate real product wage and labour productivity changes demonstrate, prima facie, that at least one strand in the dissenting argument was defensible.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"7 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":"126584312","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":"An offer they can't refuse: the imposition of final offer arbitration in the New Zealand state sector","authors":"Karen Roper","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V13I1.3631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V13I1.3631","url":null,"abstract":"On 10 March 1988, three :months to the day after the introduction of the State Sector Bill, the Government announced a nun1ber of changes to the Bill, arnongst which was the following: A provision will be included in the law that will allow the negotiating parties to a particular document to agree to a compulsory arbitration arrange1nent in return for a \"no-strike\" commitment from the union. The type of arbitration available will be \"final offer\" arbitration where the Arbitration Commission must choose between the whole position put forward by one party or the other and cannot go \"down the middle\" (Goverrunent Press Statement, March 10, 1988). Final offer arbitration (FOA) is a new concept for the New Zealand industrial relations system. It was not canvassed in the Buff Paper. Its potential application in this country has certainly not been the subject of debate amongst industrial relations practitioners. This is typical of the way in which this Bill was processed from its introduction. It bodes ill for the future of such an alien elernent in state sector bargaining.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"19 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":"126703829","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":"Registration of Unregistered Society: Appeal Against Registrar's Decision","authors":"Billy Hodge","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V3I1.3431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V3I1.3431","url":null,"abstract":"1. New Zealand Refining Company Salaried Staff Association v Auckland. Clerical and Office Staff Employees I.U.W., Industrial Court, Auckland. 22 November 1977 (I.C 77/77). Jamieson J.\u0000 2. North Island (Except Northern and Taranaki Industrial Districts) Boilermakers', Metal Workers' Assistants', Iron and Steel Ship and Bridge Builders' and Structural Workers' Society v New Zealand Engineering, Coachbuilding, Aircraft and Related Trades I.U.W. Industrial Court, Wellington. 19 December 1977 (I.C. 72/77). Jamieson J","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"13 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":"126920233","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 \"worker\", the Labour Court and the common law in New Zealand: a holy trinity?","authors":"Isaacus K. Adzoxornu","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V15I1.3488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V15I1.3488","url":null,"abstract":"The primary purpose of this article is 2 fold: firstly, to argue that not only have industrial tribunals in New Zealand incorrectly interpreted the statutory term \"worker\", but also that in doing so, they have assumed a jurisdiction which has never been conferred on them by statute; and secondly, to make some suggestions towards reform of Labour Court practice in this crucial area.","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":"125984297","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":"Final Offer Arbitration and the State Sector Act","authors":"A. Geare","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V13I1.3632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V13I1.3632","url":null,"abstract":"The first version of the State Sector Bill (State Sector Bill {l)) specified that the Labour Relations Act 1987 would apply in the State Services with respect to dispute settlement Under the Labour Relations Act 1987, the procedure of conciliation may be used only in situations involving two or more employers (s.l34(4)). Hence, to be consistent, conciliation was not available as an option in the state services. Furthennore, arbitration under the Labour Relations Act only operates when both parties agree to its use, and thus compulsory arbitration is no longer available. Thus, the State Sector Bill (I) presented the state unions with the scenario of losing their right to annual general adjusunents and with the possibility of arbitration no longer being available (should the State Services Commission (SSC) or the corresponding \"employer\" refuse to agree to arbitration). In addition to these very real problems, there were also fears among some groups that they would/could lose other rights (such as parental leave) not written into detern1inations or otherwise provided for in legislation. Some state unions deplored the fact that State Sector Bill (1) encouraged strike action - and went out on strike in protest. After protests and strike action, and further submissions, a second version of the State Sector Bill appeared dated 16 March 1988. This, State Sector Bill (2), provides the basis for the following discussions. It is assumed the State Sector Act, due to take effect from April 1, will not be significantly altered from this.","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":"125428210","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}