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- Title
Right vs Left in the Tasmanian Liquor Trades Union.
- Authors
Hess, Michael
- Abstract
Battles for control are a characteristic of Australian union history and have been analysed in terms offactors such as power, participation, and ideology. The struggle for control of the Tasmanian Branch of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union (FLAIEU) in the 1970s provides, at face value, a late example of these post-war battles between Left and Right. Closer inspection, however, shows that participants represented their actions, at the time and in hindsight, in both political and pragmatic terms. In political terms, a change in leadership of the FLAIEU in Tasmania had significance in its potential to affect the state's representation in the Australian Council of Trades Unions and locally the eventual outcome was a rare defeat for the dominant industrial Right. This leadership conflict also saw the emergence of a younger and more vigorous leadership less focussed on the politics offactionalism and bringing a different industrial approach to the Branch more suited to the needs of members in a changing industry.
- Subjects
TASMANIA; AUSTRALIA; LABOR unions; TASMANIAN history; TASMANIAN politics &; government; ALCOHOLIC beverage industry; AUSTRALIAN Labor Party; INDUSTRIAL relations; SHERRY, Nick; HUXTABLE, Christine; HARRADINE, Brian; BAIRD, David; HISTORY of political parties; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Labour History, 2011, Issue 101, p145
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5263/labourhistory.101.0145