- Title
- A tale of two towns: industrial pickets, police practices and judicial review
- Creator
- Baker, David
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/75578
- Identifier
- vital:7379
- Identifier
- ISSN:0023-6942
- Abstract
- Both the 1992 APPM Burnie dispute and the late December 1999 Lyttelton industrial dispute involved small bands of local police adopting peace-keeping and non-interventionist control of picket-lines. Considerable criticism from management, and subsequently the judiciary, was directed against the non-confrontational police response. Judicial criticisms of police handling of both disputes failed to consider the adverse consequences of a return to a traditionally aggressive policing approach. This article argues that the local relationship between union officials and local police was a significant factor in limiting violence and that a resort to belligerent policing of picketing should be resisted. The similarities of police and union approaches in both cases were stark, as were the criticisms of alleged police inactivity
- Relation
- Labour History (Australia) Vol. 95, no. (2008), p. 151-167
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1503 Business and Management; 2103 Historical Studies; 2202 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields; Labour disputes; Community policing; History; Picketing
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