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The major issue tody facing the Australian trade union movement has been the decline in union density. Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2000, show that the decline in Australian union membership continues, despite the efforts of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), to stop the decline. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that trade union membership has dropped to 28 percent of the total workforce, compared to 1992, where there was 40 percent. (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000.) Previous Australian Bureau of Statistics findings show that these recent figures are part of a general trend, with no slight recovery in the decline of union membership recorded in the past six years. Whilst it is evident that there is a decline in union membership, it is important to analyse why this is so and what the unions are doing to combat the downward trend. With the benefits of the objectives of a union evident, Australian unions still witness a decline in membership. ...
In attempting to discuss this issue, it is important to state the main objectives of a union that attract employees to join a membership and why the memberships are declining. Australian unions were established in the first half of the nineteenth century, with growth beginning in the post gold-rush era. It is from then that the fastest growth of the era seems to have been in the decade of the 1880’s, where prosperous economic conditions and a tight labour market were forces making for union development (Dabscheck, Griffen, and Teicher, 1992).
Approximate Word count = 1180
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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