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Mihajla Gavin – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Teacher unions are working in challenging times. Building power is important for teacher unions to resist neoliberal reforms that have aimed to restructure school education and weaken collective organisation. Yet we have few understandings of the democratisation project that teacher unions have engaged in to build and renew internal power in this…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Strikes, Democracy, Teacher Participation
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Randles, Harry E. – Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 1980
Sheds light on labor relations in Australia through an examination of its governance of education, Australian teachers and unions, the history of compulsory arbitration, some contrasts between compulsory arbitration and collective bargaining, some contemplated changes in the governance of education in Australia, and some speculation about the…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Randles, Harry E. – 1978
The responsibility for education in Australia rests with the states. Teachers in the state of New South Wales, as in other Australian states, are employed by the Public Service Board, which determines working conditions. Teachers are administered, however, under the Department of Education. Labor disputes in Australia are settled not by formal…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Spaull, Andrew; And Others – 1986
This monograph by four authors examines the structure and role of teacher unions in the three Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, and analyzes the rapidly changing shape of teacher unionism at the federal level. After an introduction by Andrew Spaull, Robert White, in chapter 2, examines developments within the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship, Labor Relations
Jones, Tamara – 2001
This paper explores the perceptions of three rural secondary school teachers in the Riverina area of New South Wales, Australia. In-depth interviews were conducted with three secondary teachers: three male teachers aged 25, 32, and 60. The original objective of the grounded theory study was to examine the teachers' perceptions about the state's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Mass Media Role, Professional Recognition
Taskunas, A. P. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1981
The steady state in Australian higher education has encouraged faculty and nonfaculty unionization. In the former case, if the university is truly a self-governing collegium, there is a question as to faculty simultaneously being employees and employers. Active unionism may have negative and positive consequences. (MSE)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Employees, Employer Employee Relationship