Organising Union : Transport Workers Face the Challenge of Change, 1989-2013.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transport workers--Labor unions--Australia--History.

Transport workers.

Labor unions--Organizing--Australia--History.

Labor unions.

Organizational change--Australia--History.

Organizational change.

Transport Workers' Union of Australia--History.

Transport Workers' Union of Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Organizing union

Place of Publication:

Melbourne : MUP e-store, 2017.

Summary:

Between 1989 and 2013 every industry sector covered by the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales was utterly transformed by processes of globalisation and technological and market change. Large players consumed small firms; in turn, the bigger companies were often acquired by global players. The lesson that emerges from Organising Union is simple: the value of solidarity. In 2001 redundant Ansett workers were told they would never see their entitlements. In 2006 Tooheys owner-drivers were suddenly terminated by the company; the goodwill invested in their trucks and business was declared worthless. Ansett workers received almost all their entitlements—an unprecedented 95 cents in the dollar. The Tooheys drivers' jobs were saved, the value of their goodwill upheld. Those outcomes were possible only because of the solidarity of transport workers and the support of their union. No one else stood alongside the workers at Ansett and Tooheys as consistently and tenaciously as their own union. Organising Union explores the relationship between the union and key industry players, and between the union and governments. The TWU has often been at the centre of controversy: the turbulent 1989 union election punctuated by accusations of rorts and fist fights; the clashes with the Hawke and Keating governments over the Accord and enterprise bargaining, resulting in the TWU disaffiliating from the ACTU and a truck blockade of the Reserve Bank's Sydney headquarters; the devastating 2001 Ansett closure and the long industrial war with Qantas culminating in the dramatic 2011 airline shutdown; the struggle to achieve 'safe rates' for truckies against the resistance of employers and governments. In the face of these challenges solidarity—the strength of an organising union—has held the TWU together.

Contents:

Introduction: the Light Horse Interchange 1. Back to the basics: elections and enterprise bargaining 1989-93 2. the best decision the membership ever made: the NUW amalgamation ballot and the logistics revolution 3. a grand delusion? : the TWU and the prices and incomes accord 1994-98 4. a new driving force: TWU women in action 5. soft skin security? : the transformation of cash in transit 6. TWU organising union: new strategy for a new century 1999-2003 7. the day they locked us out at the terminal: the end of Ansett Airlines 8. defending rights at work 2004-08 9. the global business of local buses 10. the battle below the wing: the 2011 Qantas dispute 11. don't trash our jobs! : campaigning for waste industry workers 12. demanding safe rates 2009- 13 conclusion: the TWU's mission at 125 years

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780522871265

0522871267

OCLC:

1499721213