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The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre Index More Information Cambridge University Press 0521842891 - The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre Index More information Index ‘Federal arbitration commission’ is used as the generic term for the institutions of arbitration, as in the text. 40-hour week, see standard hours annual leave, 38 44-hour week, see standard hours Anomalies Bill, 245 48-hour week, see standard hours arbitration reduced role under IRRA, 348 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander role in dispute settlement, 317 Commission, 213 arbitration law, Commonwealth, 18 Aboriginal Employment Development Policy, Argus (newspaper), 68 214 Ashburner, Richard, 87 Aboriginal stockmen’s award 1966, 89 Ashworth, Thomas, 252 absorption, see over-award wages and Associated Chamber of Manufactures of conditions, absorption Australia (ACMA), 259 accommodative arbitration, 7, 12, 92, 276 calls to abandon arbitration, 251 AEU dispute 1947, 295 merger with ACEF, 263 Accord, 8 National Union Bill, 245 abandonment, 53 Australia Reconstructed (ALP policy), 53 cooperative approach, 345 Australian Chamber of Commerce, 272 decentralisation, 44–5 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry employers’ associations reactions, 13, establishment, 272 264 influences Coalition policy, 273 equal pay cases, 236 Australian Communist Party, 81, see also trade establishment and implementation, 43–9, 93, unions, communist influence 304 Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Mark I, 173 Commission, 90, see also Federal Mark II, 174 arbitration tribunal Mark VI, 178, 308 appointments, 91 criticism, 49 approach under Moore, 91–2 Mark VII, 50, 271 assumes non-judicial powers of productivity bargaining, 175 Commonwealth Court of Conciliation role in inflation, 191 and Arbitration, 131 role in managing conflict, 343, 345, 349 BLF deregistration, 344 role in wage setting, 339–48 break up, 94 ‘social wage’ components, 175, 305 Commissioners, 361–4, see also names of union support, 12, 308, 343 individual Commissioners wage indexation, 264, 265, 343 concern about inflation, 188 airline pilots dispute 1991, 15, 46, 308 concern about unemployment, 188 challenge to Accord, 343, 345 conditions for Judges, 308, 309 Hawke government involvement, 343 criticismduring Accord, 93–4 Alcan case, 126 Dual Appointees, 364–6, enforcement Alexander’s case, 127 powers, see penal provisions, Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), 294 Commission deregistration, 292 enterprise bargaining principle, 178, 265, 44-hour week application 1926, 74 270 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, 270 equal pay for women, 231, 232 Amalgamated Miners’ Association, 280 establishment, 297 412 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842891 - The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre Index More information Index 413 Industrial Registrars, 366, see also names of supports indexation, 83, 168, 172 individual Industrial Registrars supports metal industry standard, 172 influence, 179 wartime policy, 293–4 Presidents, 358, see also names of individual Australian Democrats, 52, 348 Presidents Australian Employers’ Federation, 76 restructuring and efficiency principle, 175, Australian Federation of Employers, 266 178, 265 Australian Industrial Relations Commission, and productivity, 197 see also Federal arbitration tribunal role in Accord, 173, 175 Commissioners, 361–4, see also names of role in managing conflict, 172, 344–5 individual Commissioners Senior Deputy Presidents and Deputy Dual Appointees, 364–6 Presidents, 359–61, see also names of Industrial Registrars, 366, see also names of individual Senior Deputy Presidents and individual Industrial Registrars Deputy Presidents Presidents, 358, see also names of individual staffing and facilities, 92 Presidents structural efficiency principle, 175, 178, 265, Senior Deputy Presidents and Deputy see also award restructuring Presidents, 359–61, see also names of union criticism, 305–8 individual Senior Deputy Presidents and Vice Presidents, 359, see also names of Deputy Presidents individual Vice Presidents Vice Presidents, 359, see also names of wage-fixing criteria, 304 individual Vice Presidents wage indexation, 170 Australian Industry Group Australian Consumer and Specialty Products establishment, 272 Association, 44 views on conciliation and arbitration system, Australian Council of Employers’ Federations 312–13 (ACEF), 259, 262 Australian Journalists’ Association, 61 merger with ACMA, 262, 263 Australian Labor Party (ALP), 17 Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) establishment, 276, 277 authority under Accord, 50 incomes policy, 43 in Basic Wage Cases, 158, 291, 293 industrial relations policy 2001, 54 commitment to wage restraint, 8 role in Accord, 173 equal pay for women, 226, 231, 238, wage indexation, 44 240 wins 1929 election, 77 conference 1956, 225 Australian Meat Holdings, 268 establishment, 258, 285 Australian Mines and Metals Association, 258, favours conciliation over arbitration, 38 268 growing power, 303 Australian Public Service Therapists case, Kirribilli Accord, 41 236 membership decline, 310 Australian Railways Union, 79 opposes AEU 1946, 295 Australian Road Transport Federation, 268, opposes call for general strike, 288, 290 269 opposes non-union agreements, 51 ‘Australian settlement’, 208, see also conciliation opposes penal provisions, 335 and arbitration system, and protection organisationally stronger, 44 Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Presidents, 90 Employees Association, 116 rejects call for abandonment of arbitration, Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), 28, 30 77 acceptance of arbitration, 280 relations with Federal arbitration tribunal, 51, challenged by rival union, 292 77, 80, 305–9, 315 plans to become One Big Union, 284 role in Accord, 43, 93, 173, 264, 305 Secretary, 90 role in incomes policy, 303 Australian Workplace Agreements, 52, 54, 96, role in National Wage Cases, 303 136, 137, 265 supports enterprise bargaining, 49 prohibition on industrial action, 348 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842891 - The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre Index More information 414 Index Australian Workplace Industrial Relations leads to ACTU leadership, 291 Survey, 309 no reciprocity, 157 Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, restored 1934, 1937, 252 Printing and Kindred Industries Union, union reaction, 77, 290, 315 238 responsibility for decision, 38 award restructuring, 45, 181, 183, statistical analysis, 142–4 308 wage-fixing criteria, 159–63 under Accord, 305 Basic Wage and Margin Case 1965, 162 Award Simplification Test Case 1997, 273 Basic Wage Cases, 87–9, 258 award wages, see wages, award 1921, 143, 258, 285, 290 awards, Federal 1922, 285 bans clauses, 335, 336 1930s, 153 coverage, 96, 283 1934, 148, 291 extension, 287 1937, 153, 291 paid rate, 181, 305 1939, 293 Safety Net, see Safety Net 1940, 148, 223 single-employer, 267 1940–41, 156 slow spread, 282 1949–50, 39, 81–2, 155, 157, 296 under the Workplace Relations Act 1996, raises women’s rate, 225 265 1952–53, 39, 83, 88 awards system maintains women’s rate, 225 contraction, 311 1953, 296 and social security, 150–1 1956, 159 1957, 159 Bank Officials case, 112 1958, 159 Barrier Branch of the Amalgamated Miners’ 1959, 158, 159, 259 Association of Broken Hill, 329 1961, 39, 88, 162 Barrier Branch of the Amalgamated Miners’ 1964, 162 Association v BHP (1909), 281 1965, 89 Barton, Edmund, 22, 59, 108 capacity to pay criteria, 158 constitutional interpretation, 105–6 duration, 89 opposition to inclusion of conciliation and union requests for automatic adjustments arbitration power in Constitution, 110 1950s, 157, 159 Barwick, Sir Garfield, 116 wage-fixing criteria, 158 on Boilermakers case, 130 effective productivity, 158, 162 basic wage, 143 productivity only, 159, 162 abolition, 148 Beeby, Sir George automatic adjustment, 145, 152, 159, AEU deregistration, 293 285 appointment as Chief Judge, 78 abolition, 155, 296 appointment to Court, 288 annual, 162 background, 75 quarterly, 88 Basic Wage Cases, 153, 156 effect on employment, 153 decisions in favour of employers, 288 Harvester case, 5–6 and margins, 184 Higgins’ view, 27 metal trades industry awards, 180, 183, 292 increase 1957, 259 NSW Attorney General, 249 influence of Federal arbitration tribunal, provokes union hostility, 76 188 reduces overtime rates, 76 as living wage, 151 retirement, 79 Piddington Royal Commission, 73 Benham, Frederic, 75 reduction 1931, 193 Blakely, Arthur, 30 economic necessity, 153 Bland, Henry, 83 employers’ victory, 252 BLF case, 130 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521842891 - The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre Index More information Index 415 Boilermakers case 1956, 5, 127–30, 296 Central Council of Employers’ Federations, 33 government response, 130–1 Annual Conference 1920, 246 impact on conciliation and arbitration law, Central Council of Employers of Australia, 242, 131 258 Boilermakers’ Society, see Boilermakers case Industrial Arbitration Propaganda 1956 Committee, 249 Borland and Woodbridge, 198, 202 jurisdictional overlap, 249 bourgeois philanthropy, 219 legal challenge to 1904 Act, 244 Bowling, Peter, 280 National Union
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