Among small island states of the South Pacific, Solomon Islands has the third largest trade union movement after Papua New Guinea and Fiji. Unionism had an uncertain start in the early 1960s, then became more firmly established with the formation of the Solomon Islands General Workers Union in 1975. This union, which later became the Solomon Islands National Union of Workers, took a more militant and political approach to getting recognition for unionism and improving worldng conditions. This regularly put it into conflict with the state as well as employers. More recently it has been joined by two large public sector unions, just as militant in their wage negotiations and ready to confront the power of the state. The growth of unionism and...
Trade unions and trade unionism are under serious threat in most industrialised countries, in what h...
[Extract] Papua New Guinea achieved independence from Australia on 16 September 1975 and was proclai...
With less than 4,500 of its population of around 600,000 living overseas in 2013, the Solomon Island...
Among small island states of the South Pacific, Solomon Islands has the third largest trade union mo...
The trade union movement played a pivotal role in the formation of the Fiji Labour Party, and later ...
Trade unions are typified as having 'two faces'-one of social justice and the other of ves...
While recently on the island of Pohnpei in the South Pacific, I made enquires about labour relations...
Solomon Islanders have a significant history of labour mobility and diaspora. In the 19th century th...
When Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975, it inherited the Australian system of compulsory c...
This paper examines the earliest example of trade union activity in Fiji canvassing both the origins...
Trade unions and trade unionism are under serious threat in most industrialised countries, in what h...
With 282,00 members in 1945, 683,000 in 1985, and 375,000 members in 1994, trade unions have been th...
1990-1 brought a number of major disputes in Fiji's key industries which threatened to escalate. In ...
I have used a proposition developed in Kerry Howe's seminal work Where the Waves Fall (1984)...
This chapter discusses debates on unionism and business from a labour movement perspective. It begin...
Trade unions and trade unionism are under serious threat in most industrialised countries, in what h...
[Extract] Papua New Guinea achieved independence from Australia on 16 September 1975 and was proclai...
With less than 4,500 of its population of around 600,000 living overseas in 2013, the Solomon Island...
Among small island states of the South Pacific, Solomon Islands has the third largest trade union mo...
The trade union movement played a pivotal role in the formation of the Fiji Labour Party, and later ...
Trade unions are typified as having 'two faces'-one of social justice and the other of ves...
While recently on the island of Pohnpei in the South Pacific, I made enquires about labour relations...
Solomon Islanders have a significant history of labour mobility and diaspora. In the 19th century th...
When Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975, it inherited the Australian system of compulsory c...
This paper examines the earliest example of trade union activity in Fiji canvassing both the origins...
Trade unions and trade unionism are under serious threat in most industrialised countries, in what h...
With 282,00 members in 1945, 683,000 in 1985, and 375,000 members in 1994, trade unions have been th...
1990-1 brought a number of major disputes in Fiji's key industries which threatened to escalate. In ...
I have used a proposition developed in Kerry Howe's seminal work Where the Waves Fall (1984)...
This chapter discusses debates on unionism and business from a labour movement perspective. It begin...
Trade unions and trade unionism are under serious threat in most industrialised countries, in what h...
[Extract] Papua New Guinea achieved independence from Australia on 16 September 1975 and was proclai...
With less than 4,500 of its population of around 600,000 living overseas in 2013, the Solomon Island...
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