The Role and Relevancy of Australian Clerical unions

The role of unions exists to assist workers with their rights in the workplace and to improve working conditions. Unions inform and educate members and the community about the issues workers confront. Unions are very important because it is unlikely workers would win these kind of battles alone. Individual employees may not be able to do much, but bound together in a union, they have the strength of thousands to protect them. The relevancy of …

…of unions. Unions may assist but are not permitted to intervene in the approval of the QWA. Certified agreements are another example. These allow enterprise bargaining in workplaces directly with employees. The essence of a workplace agreement is that it is made between a single employer and employee and erodes the need of a trade union. Therefore many people are aware of the fact that unions are no longer needed, hence the decrease in numbers.