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dc.contributor.authorBarry, M
dc.contributor.authorReveley, J
dc.contributor.editorRon Callus and Russell Lansbury
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:53:23Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:53:23Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.date.modified2009-01-12T06:24:17Z
dc.identifier.issn0022-1856
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1472-9296.00062
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/7062
dc.description.abstractNew Zealand's Employment Contracts Act 1991 consigned to history almost 100 years of pervasive state regulation of collective employment relations. Many unions experienced a sharp decline in influence after the introduction of this piece of legislation. The traditional wharfies' union, the Waterfront Workers' Union, is a case in point. Following a decade of neo-liberal industrial relations deregulation, a centre-left Labour/Alliance Coalition repealed the Employment Contracts Act by introducing an Employment Relations Act 2000 designed to redress an 'inherent inequality' in power though the promotion of unionisation and collective bargaining. This article assesses whether this piece of nominally 'union friendly' legislation might forestall attenuation of union influence and casualisation of waterfront employment at New Zealand's ports. We argue that the new legislation contains contradictory union rights that have produced unintended consequences, with the emergence of new forms of employee representation designed specifically to further erode the power of the waterfront industry's established unions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Asia
dc.publisher.placeVictoria, Australia
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1472-9296.00062
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom508
dc.relation.ispartofpageto524
dc.relation.ispartofeditionDecember
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Industrial Relations
dc.relation.ispartofvolume44
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.titleContradictory Rights and Unintended Consequences: The Early Impact of the Employment Relations Act on the New Zealand Waterfront
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human Resources
gro.rights.copyright© 2002 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at [www.blackwell-synergy.com.]
gro.date.issued2002
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBarry, Michael J.


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