The Australian Labor government's recognition of collective bargaining under its Fair Work Act 2009, and its efficiency drive from late 2011 across the Australian Public Service (APS), presented the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) with an opportunity to explore means of union renewal...

International trade unionism faces a major challenge. Historically, Global Union Federations have been small and relatively remote international union secretariats with limited capacity to mobilize and speak on behalf of local members. However, with the changing architecture of international...

Trade unions face a range of challenges in a global world. As trade, production and consumption relations change, unions have begun to consider how they organize and operate. The argument is that for trade unions to effectively challenge key aspects of these global relations, they must take...

1. State restructuring in two states -- 2. A conceptual analysis : changing state management and trade unions -- 3. Pathways to change : the restructuring of the administrative state -- 4. Trade unions addressing change -- 5. Remoulding the state labour process -- 6. The state, depoliticisation...