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Union membership decline likely to continue before stabilising: Peetz

The post-Work Choices drop in union membership revealed today is consistent with the pattern experienced after the introduction of legislation hostile to unions in the UK, NZ and Australian states in the 1980s and 1990s, according to Griffith University Professor of IR, David Peetz.


Blow to unions, as 126,000 members lost in 12 months

Union membership has plummeted, with ABS data released today showing a loss of 126,000 members in the year to last August, and density dropping to just 20.3% overall and 15.2% in the private sector.




Sacked Tristar worker back on payroll

The Federal Court will order Tristar to keep dismissed die shop supervisor Marty Peek on full pay, but not to reinstate him ahead of a full hearing later this month, following interlocutory proceedings this afternoon.

ALP still undecided on federal or national approach

The federal ALP is still to determine whether its new IR regime will be based on a federal or a national model, and whether the Howard Government’s building watchdog – the ABCC – will survive if it wins office, according to the party’s Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for IR, Brendan O’Connor.