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IR reforms herald prosperity

By Paul Gollan - posted Friday, 30 September 2005

Given the planned reforms, are union members and potential unionists willing to pay an extra 25 per cent in membership dues in the hope of greater job security?

The problem for the ACTU is that the rapid loss of membership has reduced its authority and the potency of the movement as a whole. And it is left without any real prospect of influencing the agenda by using the AIRC to further its claims or objectives.

While there are many unanswered questions in the planned IR reforms, one thing is sure: the success of the reforms will be based on employees' perception of the reforms as an opportunity for prosperity rather than a recipe for insecurity.

Only time will tell, but it will not take long to see who is going to fall over the edge.

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First published in the Australian Financial Review on September 27, 2005.

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About the Author

Dr Paul J. Gollan is an associate professor, Department of Business, Macquarie University and an associate fellow in the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group at the London School of Economics. He is co-editor to Partnership at Work published by Pluto Press.