We’re here to make money. We’re here to do business’: The privatised state and questions for trade unions Ruth Barton, Monash University, and Peter Fairbrother, Cardiff University Under both Labor and Liberal governments Australia has been one of the world’s leading proponents of privatisation. One of the key arguments about privatisation is that it would end the ineffi cient state monopoly of ...

In this study we examined the division of finances, the division of household tasks, relationship maintenance behaviors, sexual activity, monogamy, and conflict among same-sex couples who had had civil unions in Vermont, same-sex couples who had not had civil unions recruited from their friendship circles, and married heterosexual couples recruited from among their siblings. Married heterosexua...

Recent legislative efforts to protect credit unions against unfavorable legislation reflect the growing importance of credit unions in the U.S. financial services sector. Efforts to address new technologies, combined with deregulation in financial services, have led changes in the field of membership rules governing how credit unions are chartered and how they may grow. These regulations have c...

Historically, the supposed independence of unions from parties in France has been a myth, with the development of close relations between the CGT and the PCF on the one hand, and looser ones between the CFDT in particular, and the PS on the other. These links weakened from the 1980s on, but appeared to be re-established, with some changes, when unions backed François Hollande in the 2012 presid...

We find conditions ensuring the existence of the one-sided Minkowski content for d-dimensional closed sets in R, in connection with regularity properties of their boundaries. Moreover, we provide a class of sets stable under finite unions for which the one-sided Minkowski content exists. It follows, in particular, that finite unions of sets with Lipschitz boundary and a type of sets with positi...

Multinational corporations (MNCs) are facing various labor legislations and labor institutions in different countries. This paper investigates the functions and effectiveness of Chinese unions in MNCs. Survey evidences suggest that Chinese unions play cooperative roles in helping MNCs to harmonize industrial relations (internal functions), and to build trust and long run coordination with the C...

This paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them to countries with sovereign monies by examining the criteria for Mundell’s concept of an optimum currency area. We find that members of currency unions are more integrated than countries with their own cur...

Flow typing is becoming a popular mechanism for typing existing programs written in untyped languages (e.g. JavaScript, Racket, Groovy). Such systems require intersections for the true-branch of a type test, negations for the false-branch, and unions to capture the flow of information at meet points. Type systems involving unions, intersections and negations require a subtype operator which is ...

In this paper we study the relationships existing between total measurability in variation and Gould type fuzzy integrability (introduced and studied in [21]), giving a special interest on their behaviour on atoms and on finite unions of disjoint atoms. We also establish that any continuous real valued function defined on a compact metric space is totally measurable in the variation of a regula...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of acute invaginating docking for infected non-unions of the humerus. METHODS Eight men and 3 women aged 17 to 59 years with infected non-unions of the humerus underwent acute invaginating docking with shortening and Ilizarov fixation. RESULTS The mean shortening was 2.9 cm owing to additional debridement. The mean time to external fixator removal was 14.9 (ra...