Industry-Wide Bargaining

Bargaining in an Iron Lung: A case study of enterprise bargaining in the private hospital industry and aged care industry

Decentralised bargaining in the Australian automotive assembly industry

Decentralised bargaining in the Australian automotive assembly industry Russell D. Lansbury, Chris Wright and Marian Baird The University of Sydney This paper examines the evolution of enterprise bargaining in the automotive assembly industry in Australia since the early 1990s. Although there has been a general trend towards greater variation between the four companies in the vehicle assembly s...

A Test of Bargaining Theory in the Auto Retailing Industry∗

This paper tests predictions from bargaining theory about how private information, patience, and bargaining disutility affect the division of surplus between negotiating parties. We do so using the responses to a novel survey of 1,500 new car buyers in California that asks buyers detailed questions about their bargaining behavior, their search for information, and their individual characteristi...

"Decentralized Bargaining in a Globalizing Industry: The Automotive Assembly Industry in Australia"

Bargaining in an Iron Lung: A Case Study of Enterprise Bargaining in the Private Hospital and Aged Care Industry

One legacy of the Federal ALP government initiatives under enterprise bargaining was to compel private sector health workers to seek wage increases through actual dollar savings at the enterprise level. In aged care, a cap of 1.8 per cent was imposed by the government on the funding of award wage increases. Funding grants set per bed discouraged additional revenue being raised directly from age...