01630pab a2200157 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Junor, Anne Participation, fragmentation and union response: the 1998-2000 act public sector bargaining round and the Workplace Relations Act 2000 p.67-75 Dec The current Australian Capital Territory (ACT) public sector workplace bargaining round lasted more than two years with most agreements involving a trade-off between low wage outcomes and protection of job security within performance improvement measures. The main focus of this paper is on government and agency experiments with bargaining structures and processes. The first was a limited and largely unsuccessful attempt in 1998 and 1999 at participative agreement making without the involvement of the key unions. The second, a selective decentralisation of bargaining to parts of a single business, was more successful: of 50 agreements, over 40 have been achieved. The procedural success of the decentralisation strategy is a significant outcome. However, the fragmentation strategy contained internal contradictions and required strong centralised policy control of bargaining agendas and outcomes, leading to delays and breeding distrust. Unions conducted effective defensive campaigns against non-union agreements and involuntary redundancies, but face their own dilemmas in finalising this round and preparing for the next. - Reproduced Labour relations Australian Journal of Public Administration 46982 46982 46982 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 59, Issue no: 4 AR47410 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR