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Trade Unions – Industrial Relations

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same

May 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Headline, Trade Unions – Industrial Relations

By David Bennett
The Australian union movement has been at the core of the nation’s socio-political development since the Great Strikes of the 1890s in the then Australian colonies.  Whether trade unionism remains viable as Australia moves toward a post-industrial society in the twenty first century remains to be seen. The fast pace of technological change is [...]