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The Truth About Industrial Relations

University of Sydney

One is often asked the question: What is industrial relations? The easy way to answer such a quely is to give a short list of some of the things industrial relations practitioners become involved in-strikes, unemployment, wages, technological change, consultation, personnel practice, arbitration and so on. Industrial relations as an academic dis cipline is also concerned with these things. It is helpful, however, to try to get behind the ever-pressing day-to-day pressures and details. I myself find it useful to think of industrial relations as being concerned basically with the bargaining relations between and among employers and employees and with the factors that affect these. I propose in this paper to try to bring out aspects of industrial relations bargaining that are significant at both micro- and macro- levels.

The title of this paper, 'The Truth About Industrial Rotations', reflects a desire to get away from the partisan stances of employers, unions, government, and popular opinion, and as far as a limited human being can, achieve some kind of objective appraisal of important bargaining situations.

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