'Comprehensive Campaigning' in the NSW Transport Industry: Bridging the Divide between Regulation and Union Organizing

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dc.contributor.authorRawling, Michael
dc.contributor.authorKaine, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:44:30Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T10:31:00Z
dc.description.abstractThe transport industry in New South Wales is characterized by widespread precarious employment in the form of a workforce of truck owner-drivers who largely fall outside the scope of common law protections for employee drivers. A sizeable proportion of these contingent owner-drivers have been successfully organized to become active members of the New South Wales Transport Workers Union (TWU). This article briefly examines the industry structure within which this contingent workforce of truck owner-drivers has arisen. It analyses the strategic campaign strategy that underpins the leading role of this trade union in its (so far) successful struggle to obtain and maintain innovative regulatory protections providing substantial material benefits to this workforce, in the form of enforceable minimum working conditions. In so doing, the article demonstrates the considerable potential for union involvement in diverse regulatory frameworks, which may expand existing approaches to organizing and building union capacity.
dc.identifier.issn0022-1856
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/37448
dc.publisherIndustrial Relations Society
dc.sourceJournal of Industrial Relations
dc.subjectKeywords: Comprehensive campaigning; Contingent workers; Owner-drivers; Regulation; Union organizing
dc.title'Comprehensive Campaigning' in the NSW Transport Industry: Bridging the Divide between Regulation and Union Organizing
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage183
local.contributor.affiliationRawling, Michael, ANU College of Law, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationKaine, Sarah, University of Technology Sydney
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidRawling, Michael, u4420232
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor180103 - Administrative Law
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4046278xPUB149
local.identifier.citationvolume52
local.identifier.doi10.1177/0022185609359444
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-77952367092
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4046278
local.type.statusPublished Version

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