Case Study Week 4

1001EHR Tutorial Exercise
Week 5, Tutorial 5

|Name: Megan Allwood |Student No: 2759553 |
|Tutor Name: Catherine Longworth |Week No & Date: Week 5; 20/08/12 |
|Tutorial Time: 9:00am – 9:50am |Venue: Clinical 2 G16_1.16 |

|Case Name or Exercise Name: Unions fear Qantas won’t negotiate, but will ‘stonewall’ until there is compulsory arbitration. |
|Answer |Corrections/refinement during tutorial discussion |
|Q1. What are the Unions in this case trying to achieve? | |
|Firstly a trade union is described as “a continuous association of wage earners for| |
|the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives” | |
|(Loudoun et al, p. 290) | |
|In this case, the Unions are stepping in to attend to their main promise to | |
|employees and that being protecting the interests of employees and representation | |
|of interests of members when necessary. | |
|In this case, Unions are attempting to protect the interests of their members | |
|through negotiations with management over employee’s pay and conditions and job |