Conclusion:
This project sought to examine the likely effect of changes to union access rights on unions and workers.
This was undertaken by examining public comments made by interested parties, policy analysis and statements by the Department of Labour and the Minister of Labour, and relevant secondary material.
As a result of this research, it became clear that while the changes would be of limited importance to worksites with a strong history of union activity, they would have a strong, negative impact on worksites without union presence.
This was underlined by the Readings Cinemas case study, which showed that without liberal access rights, non-unionised worksites would be unlikely to be unionised.
As described above, a set of recommendations was produced to allow a response to this issue.