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Title
Union strategy and labour-community alliances : the telephonists' exchange closure campaign, Queensland, 1978
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Journal of industrial relations, Vol. 39, No. 2, (1997), p.244-262
DOI
10.1177/002218569703900204
Publisher
Sage Publications
Date
1997
Author/Creator
Thornthwaite, Louise
Description
Some unions in the United States have found labour-comomunity alliances an effective tactic for countering management's increasingly sophisticated anti-union strategies and declining union density. This article contributes to the literature on the use of such alliances in Australia by examining the exchange closure campaign of Telecom telephonists in Queensland in 1978. The telephonists had a strategic advan tage in using alliances with rural communities in their struggle against Telecom because it was a large public monopoly employer and because alternative courses of action to immediate exchange closure were available to it. This article suggests that the telephonists' tactic may have a wider applicability in an era of increasingly anti-union rhetoric and legislation, declining union density, and labour movement concerns over the public image of trade unions.
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19 page(s)
Resource Type
journal article
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Macquarie University. Dept. of Marketing and Management

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http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/182649
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ISSN:0022-1856
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mq-rm-2011008162
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mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-0346231750
Language
eng
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