http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:8856 Qantas is an international airline operating in a turbulent environment with cost, infrastructure and demand pressures forcing a major consolidation of the industry. With a national industrial relations climate which could be labelled as generally 'benign' for employers over the last decade Qantas has had a series of disputes with its unions over recent years. This has been noteworthy in the context of very low levels of industrial disputation. As an integrated and international airline Qantas has a number of strategies available to it to reduce costs and marginalise unions. Drawing on the literature of the industrial relations policies of multinational corporations, the paper considers the options and constraints facing Qantas as further turbulence hits the airline industry. 2013-03-20T05:07:42.463Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:1582 This article compares trends and issues affecting labour security in the UK and Australia, using an adaptation of Standing's 1997 typology. The increased polarization and variability of hours worked, declining union densities and increased wage inequality provide evidence of growing labour insecurity in both countries. This represents the reciprocal impact of increased employer dominance in the workplace and government pursuit of labour flexibility. Growing labour insecurity casts doubts on the supposed benefits for EU economies of the Anglo-Saxon model of deregulated labour markets. The last part of the article considers measures to counter increased insecurity. 2010-04-27T06:26:35.506Z ]]>