Union responses to regulatory change: Strategies of protective layering

Kaine, S; Brigden, C

Union responses to regulatory change: Strategies of protective layering

Kaine, S

Brigden, C

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2015, 26 (4), pp. 614 - 630
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Kaine, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8485-7156	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Brigden, C	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2015, 26 (4), pp. 614 - 630	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1035-3046	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/40978
dc.description.abstract	© The Author(s) 2015. Changes to the Australian regulatory landscape over the past three decades of global liberalisation created regulatory uncertainty for unions. Coupled with membership decline and internal restructuring through union amalgamations, they prompted an important reorientation by unions (back) to the workplace, and precipitated different strategic decisions and organising challenges. However, the proliferation of fragmented employment relationships rendered workplace-centred organising an insufficient response. As a result, some unions experimented with ways of supplementing existing legal frameworks by other regulatory initiatives, through campaigns that resulted in the layering of regulation. In this article, we examine attempts by three unions - covering garment workers, road transport workers and aged care workers - to address the needs of members in garment homeworking, road transport and aged care in a contested regulatory environment.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Economic and Labour Relations Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1035304615615275	en_US
dc.title	Union responses to regulatory change: Strategies of protective layering	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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© The Author(s) 2015. Changes to the Australian regulatory landscape over the past three decades of global liberalisation created regulatory uncertainty for unions. Coupled with membership decline and internal restructuring through union amalgamations, they prompted an important reorientation by unions (back) to the workplace, and precipitated different strategic decisions and organising challenges. However, the proliferation of fragmented employment relationships rendered workplace-centred organising an insufficient response. As a result, some unions experimented with ways of supplementing existing legal frameworks by other regulatory initiatives, through campaigns that resulted in the layering of regulation. In this article, we examine attempts by three unions - covering garment workers, road transport workers and aged care workers - to address the needs of members in garment homeworking, road transport and aged care in a contested regulatory environment.

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