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Labor Council Information Centre
We are also open 5 days per week now from 8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. with Peter Zangari, the Research Assistant, helping with inquiries, as well as conducting research and helping Labor Council Officers with IRC hearings, negotiations, information stalls, committee work and anything else required.
ResourcesElectronic resources continue to play a major role in the functioning of the Information Centre, with heavy use being made of federal and state awards, agreements and decisions on the internet and CD-ROM, industrial law reports and commentary. Loose leaf reports, covering occupational health and safety, workers compensation, equal employment opportunities, personnel management, superannuation, enterprise bargaining, recruitment and termination law and leave and holiday practice and law remain invaluable for research purposes. CCH has been enhancing the value of its services with vastly improved newsletters and review essays accompanying its updates. NewsletterOur pro-active role has been enhanced by providing a fortnightly newsletter (also available on the Labor Council web site under news alerts) giving overviews of IR issues and news reported in the many newsletters, journals, magazines, ABS publications and research papers the Information Centre receives. Affiliates and other readers are encouraged to ask for copies of articles reported. The newsletter (now called Labour Review) will look to providing snapshots of current economic trends at regular intervals in the coming year. Other ResourcesThe various university industrial relations research centres continue to produce invaluable material which is well used by students and staff. Good recent examples have been at the cutting edge of research on working time, employment security and casualisation. Also the work ACIRRT has done on the NSW IR Act emphasises the importance of a strong union presence, backed by a progressive state government in securing better employment conditions for NSW workers. The library continues to grow. Recent months have seen many new acquisitions including a number of biographies of trade union figures (Jennie George, Tom and Audrey McDonald, Nick Origlass), a history of the green bans in NSW, in addition to books of topical interest such as Mark Latham's Civilising Global Capitalism and Lindsay Tanner's Open Australia. Monograms such as ACIRRT's book on work and its future and a collection on international and comparative industrial relations also represent recent additions to our collection.
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