OPINION: Even the pro-union Biden administration has not handed unions the powers over employers and workers that Australia’s labour movement has got from Labor.
In 2022, the US experienced a 39 per cent increase in strikes compared to 2021. Polls suggest that community support for unions reached the highest level since the 1960s – jumping from less than 50 per cent in 2009 to over 70 per cent in 2022.President Joe Biden has styled himself as “the most pro-union president”
Australian union membership levels are down to just 8 per cent of the private sector workforce, with a declining share of the growing public sector workforce. But Australian union power is set to resurge in 2023 on the back of the first tranche of reforms enacted by the Labor government.Over the course of the year, the impact of Labor’s enactment of the ACTU/Greens policy ofwill become clear.
As the new laws become operational, the different industry circumstances and power relationships become important. In the public sector, employers often support wage increases, but require funding approval. The greatest fears on multi-enterprise bargaining exist in sectors such as the logistics supply chain whereIn 2023, unions no longer need employer agreement, or the majority support of employees, to initiate renewal of an expired agreement.
Once a multi-enterprise agreement is in force, other employers can be roped into it by the FWC without undergoing any bargaining process. Clearly, bargaining dynamics have changed. Over time the proportion of single enterprise agreements and over-award arrangements will inevitably fall, and the number of multi-enterprise agreements and intractable bargaining determinations will rise.
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