Where are the Non-members?: Challenges and Opportunities in the Heartlands for Union Organising

摘要: Changing patterns of union membership and non-membership during the 1990s have been mapped by ACIRRT researchers using unpublished ABS data in development a new database commissioned Australian Council Trade Unions (ACTU). Methodologically, key innovation Non-Unionists Members (NUMs) is concordance table classification occupations industries as heartlands, midlands lowlands according to their level density analyse trends areas strength weakness. After mapping location non-members across workplaces different size within lowlands, our primary conclusion that consolidating extending heartland should be strategic priority for renewal. Our analysis illustrates there are significant opportunities building areas, especially large workplaces, where unions continuing suffer major losses even overall levels stabilised past couple years. As employment growth slower ultimately organise workers - amongst mid low-skilled service but unless heartlands consolidated capacity expand into non-traditional future will compromised.