By J. Schulman
A cross-country comparability of modern Labour occasion governments in New Zealand, Britain, and Australia, and an exploration of the way these nations' labour routine answered to their events' neoliberal rules in strength.
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This was made obvious in the months before the 1984 election, when the Labour Party Joint Council was debating economic policy: ‘The FOL [Federation of Labour] and State Services union leaders knew at the time of the policies [which] Roger Douglas was suggesting. 95 Had the FOL not been so quick to support the status quo at the Conference, had there been more prominent trade unionists seeking to advance union interests in parliament, and had the FOL leadership not been willing to let the Joint Council become obsolete,96 then it is conceivable that the policies of the ‘Auckland cabal’ might have received a far greater challenge from within the Labour Party.
87 But no comprehensive corporatist political programme was offered. 88 But the Labour government still refused to consult with the NZCTU leadership in any significant economic policy decisions. Like the FOL before it, the NZCTU had little power over its affiliates. Joining the NZCTU did not clearly tie unions to its leadership’s corporatist strategy. 89 Strategic unionism, then, effectively backfired. 90 Nor were the unions as united strategically as it might have appeared at the 1987 conference, where they all acted virtually in unison.
54 Though the ICAA had been written by the Liberal Minister of Labour, William Pember Reeves, without the intent of conferring advantage upon one social class over another, arbitration appeared to increase trade union power by increasing unions’ bargaining capacity, thereby advancing the relative position of wage labourers as a class. Union membership, representing around 8 per cent of the working population in 1901, doubled by 1911 and quadrupled by 1921, with union density reaching 26 per cent.
