How the west was lost? Hamersley Iron, the birthplace of a decade of De-Unionisation Hearn Mackinnon, Bruce 2003, How the west was lost? Hamersley Iron, the birthplace of a decade of De-Unionisation, in AIRAANZ Conference Proceedings 2003 : reflections and new directions, Melbourne, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 1-9. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title How the west was lost? Hamersley Iron, the birthplace of a decade of De-Unionisation Author(s) Hearn Mackinnon, Bruce Conference name Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia (2003 : Melbourne) Conference location Monash University, Melbourne Conference dates 4-7 February 2003 Title of proceedings AIRAANZ Conference Proceedings 2003 : reflections and new directions, Melbourne Editor(s) Teicher, Julian Publication date 2003 Start page 1 End page 9 Publisher Monash University Place of publication Melbourne, Vic Summary Given the focus of recent years on Rio Tinto's battles with the Australian union movement over its (largely successful) attempt to de-unionise its diverse mining and manufacturing operations, this paper examines how the company first introduced its 'staff employment system at Hamersley Iron in 1993. The success of this venture clearly provided a template for its replication throughout its many other operations over the following years. Though no doubt assisted by changed legal and political environments, this paper argues that it was ultimately the demonstration of managerial determination and a hesitant union leadership which led to the de-unionisation at Hamersley Iron. As the union movement/makes a renewed attempt to attract workers back to the fold, there are valuable lessons to be learnt from its earlier mistakes. ISBN 0732622425 9780732622428 Language eng Field of Research 150306 Industrial Relations HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005166 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: School of Management and Marketing   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 11 Feb 2009, 14:10:15 EST Mon, 03 May 2010, 14:39:35 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 687 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:46:16 EST

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