TRADE UNIONS IN AUSTRALIA

Trade Unions in Australia

Introduction

In the fastest way of our living, we are still experiencing the trades and business in our life, for the development of not only ones status in life but the whole country in general. Being connected in the daily life of the trade, it is undoubtedly part of trades is the trade union which is association of the labors and are limited in the membership of the people in similar trade (, 2008).  This is also the employees’ organizations which are collectively acting in the protection mutually which has the concerned and assistance to the condition and wages of the employment. These unions are also workers’ representation in connecting to the government and to the employers. These are also offering services which include the finances, dental care, scholarships and the health services (, 2008).

The trade unions can also affect the performance of the organization it its all aspect of the business as in the management which is the improvement in the evolvement and the industry where the business is currently under. The Australian Industry is facing the multiple and responsibility in the government and to the federal. In this case the employees are also responsible in the governmental policy that had been implemented (., 2005, ). In this case, the most prominent and well-known labour organization in Australia and to the other part of the world is the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). The country had been formed since 1927 and recorded to have 50 other affiliated unions. In this manner, same as to the other labour organization trends in other countries, the membership of the union had been decreasing even at the last part of the 21st century (, 2008).

In the past decade and until recently, Australia had been facing the

 

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Challenges of the Organization

 

The Organization’s Solutions

In order for Australia to improve the conflict in the labour department, the Australian government implemented system of arbitration which had been aroused in more of the interest to the other countries. The implemented system had an attempt of fixing the working and wages of the conditions in the law. The federal government has the right given by the national constitution in undertaking the arbitration and conciliation in the industrial disputes. The system of the arbitration had been established in the year 1904 through the aide of the Arbitration Act and the Conciliation and start of the creation of the Arbitration and the Commonwealth Court of Reconciliation. In the said resolution, it had been written that the dispute cannot give solution by the conciliation and to the bargaining. In this manner, the trade union or the employer which is concerned can have the chance to take the dispute to the specific court for the decision which is law force. The strikes are not permitted but the strike on the union can have the contempt and fined accordingly if it is in defiance. The court had also been vested in the arbitral and judicial powers had been replaced by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and suddenly turned to be the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. The taxes are being levied by the state, the federal, and the local government (, 2008).

 

 

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