IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fli/journl/27692.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Return of the Lockout in Australia: a Profile of Lockouts since the Decentralisation of Bargaining

Author

Listed:
  • Briggs, C

Abstract

"Virtually unheard of outside the struggles of unions to establish themselves in the 1880s-90s and the Great Depression1, lockouts have resurfaced in a series of disputes since the decentralisation of bargaining during the 1990s. A quantitative profile of lockouts during the past decade of enterprise bargaining is presented as the first phase of a project which examines lockouts in Australia. Lockouts are still rare, but the number of working days lost in disputes with lockouts was almost six times greater for the second half-decade of enterprise bargaining than the first half-decade. Moreover, lockouts accounted for over half of the long disputes (i.e. over a month). Lockouts are especially common in manufacturing (though all major ANZSIC categories have had at least one lockout), where they constituted one quarter of all working days lost to industrial disputes in the second half-decade of enterprise bargaining. Indeed, working days lost to industrial disputes in manufacturing would have fallen but for the rising use of lockouts. Other data are presented showing that lockouts are most common in Victoria, disproportionately common in regional areas and used primarily either to repel union bargaining demands, coerce employees into signing AWAs or as a tool for concession bargaining."

Suggested Citation

  • Briggs, C, 2004. "The Return of the Lockout in Australia: a Profile of Lockouts since the Decentralisation of Bargaining," Australian Bulletin of Labour, National Institute of Labour Studies, vol. 30(2), pages 101-112.
  • Handle: RePEc:fli:journl:27692
    Note: Briggs, C., 2004. The Return of the Lockout in Australia: a Profile of Lockouts since the Decentralisation of Bargaining. Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 101-112
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2328/27692
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Amanda Pyman & Peter Holland & Julian Teicher & Brian K. Cooper, 2010. "Industrial Relations Climate, Employee Voice and Managerial Attitudes to Unions: An Australian Study," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 48(2), pages 460-480, June.
    2. Perry, L J, 2006. "Labour Market Reforms and Lockouts in New Zealand," Australian Bulletin of Labour, National Institute of Labour Studies, vol. 32(4), pages 401-420.
    3. L. J. Perry, 2005. "A Long-Term Perspective On Industrial Disputes In Australia: 1913–2003," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 24(3), pages 263-279, September.
    4. Jesper Hamark, 2022. "Strikes and lockouts: The need to separate labour conflicts," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 43(4), pages 1891-1910, November.
    5. L.J. Perry & Patrick J. Wilson, 2005. "The Decline of Seasonality in Australian Quarterly Aggregate Strike Statistics: 1983-2003," Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School, vol. 8(1), pages 43-71, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fli:journl:27692. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Rupali Saikia (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/nilflau.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.