FUTURE OF UNIONS

The future of unions … Subscribers may have noticed a considerable lull in activity on the blog! I’ve been very busy completing the book mentioned below, which will come out

McCormick Foods workers want a pay increase – their dispute shows Australia’s enterprise bargaining system is broken Picture: Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, addressing workers at the McCormick Foods picket line,

Collectivising the gig economy: In the pandemic, it’s a matter of life and death Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog. This post was recently published in

The Identity of the ‘Employer’ in Australian Labour Law: Moving Beyond the Unitary Conception of the Employer Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog  This article was

Unions in the Fair Work Act Decade – and the Aftermath of ‘Change the Rules’ This post includes some edited extracts from my recent article: ‘Ten Years of the Fair

Jelle Visser’s ‘revitalisation’ option is a viable way forward for unions – here’s how This week, I spoke at a Victorian Fabians event on ‘Organised Labour and the Future of

Victoria’s On-Demand Inquiry Report calls out the gig economy’s ‘entrepreneur’ myth and recommends much-needed reform An edited version of this post was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 16

The ‘gig’ is up: lifting the lid on the World Economic Forum’s “Charter of Principles for Good Platform Work” Last month, the World Economic Forum published its Charter of Principles

An edited version of this post, including discussion of the “contractor model” of gig platforms, was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 14 June 2019: ‘Employee or not? What the