On the right to strike

Industrial Relations  Monopoly  Law 

15/03/85 • Unknown

• There is a misuse of legal power to create monopolies.

Sir Joh's Industrial Laws

Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

26/04/85 • Unknown

• There should be a recognised freedom of employment in society.

The Crunch

Industrial Relations  Economics  Politics 

02/08/85 • Unknown

• If Bob Hawke feels that he is too weak to defy vested interests, he will sow the seeds of economic decline for everybody.

Junior Employees - Special Orders

Individual Rights  Industrial Relations 

09/08/85 • Unknown

• Minimum wage prevents potential employees from negotiating with employers.
• The right to determine one's own labour is a basic human right.

The Accord, Labour Market Regulation

Regulation  Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

18/10/85 • Unknown

• Only soft approaches that are based in individual liberty will work for labour deregulation.

The Wages Debate

Industrial Relations  Law 

20/12/85 • Unknown

• Most people resent the abuse of union power and fear that the unions will bring the country to its knees before giving up power.
• Legally binding awards and trade union monopoly powers which constraint people which they did not agree to are morally reprehensible.

The Real IR Debate

Protectionism  Industrial Relations  Business  Individual Rights 

15/03/86 • Unknown

• Being able to opt out of a wage award allows the parties to come to an agreement rather than having something forced upon them.

Recovery Alone Was Not Enough

Industrial Relations  Business  Individual Rights 

22/03/86 • Unknown

• To reduced unemployment, we need to free labour and capital from government and the unions.

The Future of Agriculture

Protectionism  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• The two demands by the National Farmers Federation that industry protection by reduced and that real wages reflect the nation's economic circumstances are reasonable.

The Opposition's I.R. Policy

Protectionism  Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

Unknown • Unknown

• The Liberal policy will give all employees the right not to join a union.

The Accord

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• The accord between the Labour Party and the Trade Unions are about to be tested. A productivity award will cause unemployment to be higher than it should be.

Cheer Up Things Are Getting Worse

Industrial Relations  Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Deregulation will force unionist to bear the consequences of their own actions.

Industrial Relations in The Pilbara

Industrial Relations  Trade 

Unknown • Unknown

• Foreign buyers only care about the price of iron ore. It is hard to understand why employee insist on practices that reduce productivity.

What's at stake at Robe River

Industrial Relations  Business 

Unknown • Unknown

• The main issue is whether Robe will be allowed to increase productivity and to invest in further developing costlier ore bodies or will the unions force it out of business.

What Is the New Right?

Politics  Industrial Relations  Individual Rights  Taxation  Fiscal Policy 

Unknown • Unknown

• Our wishes are to reduce union power, unfair business privileges, balance the government budget, reduced public expenditure and taxes, stopping the middle class from being ripped off, restore competiveness and protection of the family.

Of Taxes and Superannuation

Taxation  Superannuation  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• Democracies can slash marginal tax rates if they want to;
• Some people are unwilling or unable to provide for themselves.
• It is the demands of the middle class that make tax reductions difficult.
• Union organised superannuation can be a competitive and safe alternative to high welfare payments and taxes.

NFF, AFE and The Wage Case

Economics  Economics  Regulation  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • On the Dry Side

Will Unemployment Ever Come Down

Industrial Relations  Welfare 

Unknown • Unknown

• Reducing taxes on the lowest paid where anyone who was on unemployment benefits will be better off working is the most politically and morally right.

Of Unions, Rights and Property

Industrial Relations  Taxation  Property Rights 

Unknown • Unknown

• The poorest person has no property but their labour.
• The government's first responsibility is the security of its citizens. Does taxation extend to the right of labour of its citizens?

Two Ways of Coping with Unions

Industrial Relations  Law 

Unknown • Unknown

• Reducing the power of unions until they have to obey the law like everyone else.
• Passing legislation to override the power of the unions.

The Campaign Issues

Politics  Regulation  Industrial Relations  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• John Howard's policy stances are more like Margaret Thatcher than he is given credit for.
• The important issue is to increase efficiency without which Australia is sunk. Tax cuts matter but not so much as deregulation and industrial relations reform.

The Issues Today

Politics  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• Labour's industrial relations policy is corporatist, Liberal's is individualist. The main issue is who will rid is to national debt.

Trade Unions in Britain

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

The Darwin Water Front

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• Militant trade unionism is not the only reason for our declining living standards and the difficulties of balance of payments but there is no doubt that both would be improve without it.

Airline Deregulation

Regulation  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • FIN

• The less the airlines are protected from consumer choice, the less that it will pay for employees to go on strike.

Corporatism and the ACTU

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• Corporatism with its concentration arbitrary power is an evil system and Italian Fascism is the best example of that.

Replying to the ACTU

Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

Unknown • WEE

• In Australia, a small wage restraint was bought by offering more power to the ACTU and the unions.
• In Australia, the only basic human right not respected is the right to sell one's labour.

The Source of Union Power

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• The power of the unions is both political and industrial.
• A monopoly is only as effective as the barrier that holds out competitors.

Labour Markets

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• Restoration of personal liberties, increased productivity, low inflation and full employment should be the goals of any labour market reform.
• However, any reform must take into account of the consideration power of the unions.

Robe River Iron and The Common Law

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• The Robe River Iron Associates (RRIA) should not be demonised for using the law to recover their company property and their poor public relations should not be used as an excuse to bully them.

Super Unions

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• For any society to function, there must be near consensus about fundamental rules.
• Competition with the established rules has a better record than the protectionism imposed by ministers and union officials.

The Liberals IR Policy

Industrial Relations  Monopoly  Competition  Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• To protect the public from monopolies, the best alternative is to allow competition. Any reduction will reduce the pain of getting our economic house in order.

The 'right' that never existed

Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

04/12/88 • Unknown

• There is no inherent right to strike only to stop working. By preventing other people from taking their jobs, they are subtracting their rights.

The Government and The Wage Round

Protectionism  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unpublished

• The government should not be entrenching the unions. They should be doing what is right for the economy.

Of Wages and Wheat

Industrial Relations  Regulation  Politics 

06/04/89 • FEA

• The Liberals must establish the few important principles now. Continual deregulation is one of them.

Whither Florence Nightingale?

Protectionism  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• If individual nurses could be rewarded for their productivity, union protectionism would not work, and patients and taxpayers would not be bled.

The Pilots and The Libs IR Policy

Industrial Relations  Politics 

05/09/1989 • WEE

• The whole point of the Liberal policy was the salary of pilots should be market driven but the leader of the Liberal party missed the opportunity to educate the Australian people on the least painful way to bring the current account into balance.

On Not Subsidising Ansett

Protectionism  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• Since the Prime Minister cannot subsidise every everyone that has been disadvantaged by a strike, he should not subsidise the wealthy that have the ear of the government.

Youth Employment

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• Many government programs subsidise employers to hire apprentices. This is admitting that young, unskilled employees are overpriced due to the minimum wage.

The Rake's Progress

Industrial Relations  Competition 

20/09/1989 • WEE

• The rhetoric against the Australian Federation of Air Pilots is unfair. They are not the enemy, they should be left to be dealt with by market forces.

The Annual Convention of The Industrial Relations Society of WA (Inc)

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• The fundamental reason why the labour market deregulation has not proceeded was indicated by a trade union official belief that most of society cannot get along. Unfortunately, he did not believe that most of society would appreciate directing their own affairs.

Healthcare, Unions, Solidarity and Conflict

Industrial Relations  Healthcare 

Unknown • WEE

• One characteristic of a protected industry is that few of the decision makers have to bear the consequence of their decisions.
• Another characteristic is that authority is used to set prices instead of demand and supply determining prices.

What Right to Strike?

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • WEE

• Any strike is a collusion by employees to raise the price of their labour and there is no inherent human right to do so.
• Sanctions that clearly subtract from other people's rights should be illegal.

Trade Policy: The Litmus Test

Industrial Relations  Trade 

Unknown • WEE

• Free trade has always been in Australia's best interests. The Liberal's trade policy has called for Australia economy to be integrated internationally by the year 2000.

Sharabhron Ardeshiran v Robe River Iron Associates

Industrial Relations  Business 

Unknown • WEE

• The legislation enshrines anti-business prejudice even though it was intended to address prejudice.

The Wage Case

Industrial Relations  Economics 

February 1987 • BOMA

• High minimum wages kill off jobs and increase foreign debt. In order for Australia to have a trade surplus, Australians must improve competitiveness sustainably. Unit costs must be lower than other countries.

Tripartitism Examined

Politics  Industrial Relations 

08/10/90 • Minelife

• Tripartitism is used to describe arrangements between government, trade unions and employer councils. Tripartitism uses committees as an alternative to deregulation and privatisation.

Making Full Employment Legal

Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

Unknown • Rural Times

• The Coalition promise to de-criminalising individuals selling their labour will improve our living standards and pay off our foreign debts.

What Right to Strike?

Industrial Relations  Competition  Individual Rights 

Unknown • Rural Times

• A competitive labour market works only if both employers and employees are competitive. Union sanctions affect the rights of individuals.

Australia Fritters Away Its Wealth

Regulation  Industrial Relations 

09/01/1990 • Asian Wall Street Journal

• Deregulators have had the most success in the financial markets due to the former treasurer's championing financial deregulation and neither the banks nor the bank employees union opposing deregulation.

A Basic Right to Work

Industrial Relations  Politics  Individual Rights 

26/06/83 • Sunday Independent

• Trade Unionists, Industrial Judges and Politicians are being unfair to our weakest citizens by denying them their basic human right to sell their own labour.

Budget Headaches - Burke and Hawke

Budget  Industrial Relations  Politics 

10/07/83 • Sunday Independent

• The best thing that can be done for the unemployed due to the recession is to reduce the wages of those that are closest to unemployment.

OECD Approach to Unemployment

Industrial Relations  Business  Politics 

24/07/83 • Sunday Independent

• Unemployment levels are kept artificially higher than which an employer can hire a potential employee.

17% Holiday Loading

Politics  Industrial Relations 

07/08/83 • Sunday Independent

• Abolition of holiday loading could have been the greatest job creation scheme of it was not set aside due to misguided notions of equity.

The Incomes Accord

Industrial Relations 

15/01/84 • Sunday Independent

• The Labour Party's policies have caused an inflexible labour market and have prevented workers from negotiating a job. This has caused a drop-in employment for a long time to come.

Football

Industrial Relations  Subsidies 

29/01/84 • Sunday Independent

• The defence of subsidising the rich is everybody get their share and therefore the process is fare. It is both futile and unfair.

Youth Employment

Industrial Relations  Competition 

07/10/84 • Sunday Independent

• By preventing youths from competing with adults through laws that deny them gain experience that will assist them in future.