The Discipline of Work & Organisational Studies and the Business and Labour History Group present :
Symposium on Non-Union Forms of Employee Representation in the Asia Pacific Rim - Programme
The University of Sydney, 7 December 2007
8:30 – 9.00 |
Registration |
9.00 – 9.15 |
Welcome |
9.15 –10.15 |
Session 1
Lucy Taksa Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney
AUSTRALIA |
Intended or unintended consequences?: a critical reappraisal of the Safety First Movement and its joint management and worker safety committees |
Nikola Balnave University of Western Sydney, Sydney
AUSTRALIA |
The Veneer of Employee Participation: Administration of Welfare Schemes in Australian Industry |
Raymond Markey & Greg Patmore Auckland University of Technology
NEW ZEALAND/
University of Sydney, Sydney
AUSTRALIA |
Promoting Employee Representation: The Role of State Labor Governments in Australia, 1973-88. |
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10.15 – 10:45 |
Morning Tea |
10.45 – 12.15 |
Session 2
Jonathan Rees Colorado State University – Pueblo, Colorado
UNITED STATES |
Why Don’t American Unions Encourage Non-Union Employee Representation? |
Amanda Tattersall Work & Organisational Studies, University of Sydney and Working NSW, Sydney
AUSTRALIA |
Community organising as a pathway to union representation: Organising home care and home childcare in Chicago |
John Logan London School of Economics and Political Science
UNITED KINGDOM |
The Debate Over Employee Representation Plans and Works Councils during the Clinton Administration |
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12.15 – 1.15 |
Lunch |
1.15 – 2.45 |
Session 3
Peter Holland, Amanda Pyman, Brian Cooper & Julian Teicher Department of Management,
Monash University,
Melbourne
AUSTRALIA |
Developments in Non-Union Voice in Australia |
Ian Sakinofsky School of Business Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, CANADA |
Consultation in the Workplace as a Non-Equivalent Substitute for True Worker Voice, and as a Means of Securing Worker Compliance with Unpopular Decisions – an experimental study involving subjects in Australia, UK, and Canada |
Rae Cooper and Chris Briggs Work & Organisational Studies, University of Sydney NSW, Sydney
AUSTRALIA/Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney
AUSTRALIA |
‘Trojan Horse’ or ‘Vehicle for Organising’? Non-Union Collective Agreement-Making in Australia 1996~2005 |
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2.45 – 3.15 |
Afternoon Tea |
3.15 – 4.45 |
Session 3
Dong-One Kim Korean Journal of Industrial Relations Professor of Employment Relations, School of Business and Graduate School of Labor Studies, Korea University
SOUTH KOREA |
Employees’ Perspective on Nonunion Representation in Korea: A Comparison with Unions |
Grant Michelson Work & Organisational Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney
AUSTRALIA |
Employee Voice in South Korea: The Case of Yong Dong Po Urban Industrial Mission (YDP-UIM) |
Edson Urano Research and Education Center for Fair Labor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
JAPAN |
Emergence of Community Unions as Alternative Forms of Labor Struggle in Japan |
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4.45 – 5.00 |
Conclusion |
