The new Employee Relations Bill which was introduced into the Victorian parliament on 29 October 1992 is a harbinger of a wider conservative political agenda to decollectivize industrial relations in Australia. The aim of the Liberal and National Parties is to replace the century-old system of conciliation and arbitration not with collective bargaining but with individual bargaining. The purpose is to debilitate organized labour and reassert employer authority. Shared governance at the workplace is to…
