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Enterprise Bargaining Agreement Example

ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT FOR THE RHEEM SYDNEY PLANT

This research paper outlines the main features of a proposed enterprise agreement between the Rheem Sydney, Australia plant (Rheem Sydney) and its local unions and discusses the issues and problems associated with it and its implementation. For various reasons, the objectives of management, the nature of the businesses involved and their underlying economics and other local history and conditions, this enterprise agreement will differ substantially from the one Leisure Co. Pty. Ltd. (Leisure Co.) proposes to use in the assigned case.

The use of enterprise bargaining agreements has come into vogue in Australia labour negotiations because they eliminate the necessity for negotiating separate agreements with the multiple unions present at a single workplace and because they permit management to tailor working rules and conditions to local conditions and to minimize the standard and often rigid requirements of nationally negotiated agreements which reduce operational flexibility and lower the productivity of labour and capital.

Both Leisure Co. and Rheem Sydney are faced with a multiplicity of craft or occupationally organized craft unions.

Leisure Co. deals with many such unions, but only at some of its locations. Fifty five percent of its employees are unionized, mostly representing its resort and residential employees. It faces disruptive disputes in connection with union attempts to organizes its tourism boating operations. These unions have introduced 17 different award systems within 8 core operational awards which are inhibiting the development company-wide of a more flexible workforce committed to overall company objectives, especially more uniform labour practices and administration, multi-skilling, job rotation and training.

Rheem Sydney has five different unions at its Sydney plant which have imposed over time a crippling array of work practices, sharp demarca...

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