Peak Council Organising at Work:

ACTU strategy 1994-2000

By Rae Cooper

In the mid 1990s, after many years of falling density and declining power, a debate was generated within the labour movement about how unions could extract themselves from the crisis they faced

The debate was about 'organising'.

This article sets out the ACTU role as an organising agent sets out the role of the Organising Centre and the Organising Unit, established to help implement the recommendations of the unions@work report. Organising was 'mainstreamed' in the 1990s. Cooper analyses the pressures which have shaped the ACTU's organizing strategy.