Employer Matters in 2000

In a year of more intense industrial conflict, for some employers and their associations this meant facing vigorous union campaigns. As a result, associations concentrated more on their traditional tasks of coordinating industrial action, legal representation and political lobbying. Pressure for sympathetic legislative change continued and the ‘Work-place Relations Club’ continued to work towards institutional control on behalf of their unitarist vision. Some employers, bent on an adversarial approach to industrial relations, initiated strategies that depended more heavily on lockouts and litigation.