Harry C. Katz of Cornell University @ Joe Isaac Symposium, Oct. 2019, Melbourne, Australia
Channel: Greg Bamber
Date: 2019-12-22

New Forms of Worker Representation: Substitute for or Complement to Unions & Collective Bargaining? Professor Harry C. Katz, Cornell University, USA.
With rapidly changing workforces being reshaped by developments such as the gig economy, new forms of collective worker representation are emerging. Apart from unions and formal collective bargaining structures, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become a significant force in US industrial relations. These NGOs include worker rights groups, worker and immigrant rights centres, other organisations and affinity groups in non-union employers. What is the influence and staying power of such alternative forms of collective representation? And are there lessons for Australian governments, regulators, employers and unions? Renowned US expert and Cornell University Professor Harry C Katz discusses such questions in his keynote address at the annual Joe Isaac Symposium. 
Speakers include [in order of appearance]: Professor Greg Bamber, Monash University; Professor Simon Wilkie, Monash University; Professor Harry Katz, Cornell University; Geoff McGill, Monash University; Linda Rubinstein, Melbourne; Professor Ian McDonald, University of Melbourne;  Frank Papa, Papa Consulting; Emeritus Professor Russell Lansbury AO, University of Sydney; The Hon. Geoff Giudice AO, Ashurst; Jooyeon Son, University of Melbourne; Graeme Issac,  film producer/Joe Issac's son.
This symposium series was developed jointly by Monash University and the University of Melbourne to recognise and highlight the outstanding contribution to industrial relations by the late The Hon. Emeritus Professor Joe Isaac, AO, FASSA. He was long one of Australia’s most distinguished scholars and practitioners in the broad and important field of industrial relations. 
This event was co-hosted by the Department of Management and the International Consortium for Research in Employment and Work (iCREW), Centre for Global Business, both part of Monash Business School, Monash University; and the Melbourne Human Resource Management Unit, part of the Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne. With thanks to the External Engagement team, Monash Business School; the Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne; Leigh Sheehan: www.leighsheehan.com for filming the event.
Harry C. Katz, PhD, is the Jack Sheinkman Professor/Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at the Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR) School, Cornell University.  He is President-elect of the International Labor & Employment Relations Association and Past-president of the US Labor & Employment Relations Association. He has served as the Dean of the ILR School and Interim Provost, Cornell University, US. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.  His major publications include Labor Relations in a Globalizing World (with TA Kochan & AJS Colvin) and Converging Divergences (with O Darbishire), Cornell University Press. He is also a member of the US United Auto Workers Union Public Review Board.