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In Defence Of Australian Academic Unionism, Grahame Mcculloch
In Defence Of Australian Academic Unionism, Grahame Mcculloch
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
This paper does not aspire to be an objective account of academic unionism. It is written from my perspective as a committed union activist, and comes at a time when there is a real prospect of a substantial erosion of the role and authority of Australia's academic unions. I refer, of course, to the well publicised plans to developed a model of academic industrial relations in which working conditions would be radically deregulated, and in which unions would be given only a limited role. Unionism is seen as responsible for the debasement of collegial life in our universities, and the …