The State of Industrial Relations

The Evatt Foundation is pleased to invite members and friends to the launch of The State of Industrial Relations on Thursday 4 September in the atrium of the Sydney Trades Hall.

Speakers

The book is to be launched by John Robertson, Secretary of Unions NSW, with John Buchanan, the Director of the Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney.

The State of Industrial Relations is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand what the struggle over WorkChoices was all about, who needs to remember what it was all about, or who wishes to join the public debate over the transition to a fairer Australia.
The book is an edited collection of 10 chapters by specialists and leading participants in the public debate over the direction of Australia's industrial relations. The State of Industrial Relations completes the Evatt Foundation's critique of WorkChoices and joins the new directions that have accompanied the election of the Rudd Labor government.

Contributors
Foreword by Chris Gambian

Tessa Meyrick -- Federalism

Peter Waring & John Burgess -- Productivity

Rae Cooper & Bradon Ellem -- Collective Bargaining

Cath Bowtell -- The 'fairness' test

Meg Smith -- Working women

NSW Commission for Children and Young People -- Working children

Jeff Lawrence -- A new settlement

Julia Gillard -- Forward with fairness

Chris White -- The right to strike

Edited with an introduction by Christopher Sheil