Anti-Union Employer Strategy: An Historical Analysis - Programme

Conference Room, Darlington Centre, The University of Sydney, 10 November 2008

9.00-9.30 Morning Tea/Registration
9.30-9.45 Introduction
Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore, The University of Sydney
9.45-10.45 The US experience

Jennifer E. Brooks, Auburn University, Replacing Workers, Busting Unions: Taft-Hartley and the Defeat of Organized Labor in the Postwar South

John Logan, London School of Economics and Political Science, Fighting Anti-Unionism With International Pressure: The United States and the ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association
10.45-11.15 Morning Tea
11.15-12.45 The Australian Experience Before 1980

Naomi Segal, University of Western Australia, 'An organised system of victimisation': how mine employers excluded undesirable workers from the Western Australian gold mines

Peter Sheldon, University of New South Wales, Improving occupational health and safety or destroying a militant union? Mechanisation of work and Sydney’s rockchoppers 1910-20

Ray Markey, Auckland University of Technology, and Greg Patmore, The University of Sydney, Employee Participation and Labour Representation: ICI Works Councils in Australia
12.45-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 The Recent Australian Experience I

Marjorie A. Jerrard, Monash University, 'Dinosaurs are still not Dead': Management Challenges to Industrial Unionism in the Australian Meat Industry

Peggy Trompf, The University of Sydney, 'Government and Bosses in Bed' : state and capital cooperation in union coercion 1990-2006

Bruce Mackinnon, Deakin University, The 1990s: CRA/Rio Tinto’s decade of deunionisation
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.30-4.30 The Recent Australian Experience II

Ruth Barton, RMIT University, Call Centre Deunionisation in Telstra 1996-2004

Michael Lyons, University of Western Sydney, Their own worst enemy? Union avoidance in the children’s services industry
4.30-4.45 Conclusion

Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore, The University of Sydney