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Record W7128608303 · doi:10.1093/jhuman/huaf030

Labour Unions and Human Rights in Australia

2025· article· en· W7128608303 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Human Rights Practice · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLabor Movements and Unions
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersAustralian Research CouncilUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of Sussex
KeywordsScrutinyHuman rightsLabour lawLegislatureLegislationHuman capitalLabor relations

Abstract

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Abstract The labour movement and the human rights movement have long converged, with labour unions having become a significant actor in Australian human rights scrutiny processes and able to influence legislation concerning marginalized populations. In this paper, we explore the influence of Australian labour unions on human rights in relation to two population groups—people who use drugs and LGBTIQA+ people. This is based on a detailed examination of labour unions’ submissions to the development and review of human rights charters in three Australian jurisdictions—the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, and Queensland—and legislative scrutiny committees in these jurisdictions, with attention to how labour unions adopt human rights analyses and arguments in their submissions. Our analysis has found that there are some areas in which labour unions are strong advocates for advancement of human rights—namely, workers’ rights and women’s rights—and some areas in which labour unions are critical of human rights advancements—namely, criminals’ rights and the right to health. Furthermore, some labour unions have tensions with human rights generally. Often the interest of labour unions in managing public behaviour that impacts workers may be in tension with human rights concerns, and the dominance of labour unions in legislative scrutiny processes can raise issues for human rights-compatible law reform for people who use drugs and LGBTIQA+ people. This paper explores these tensions and charts future directions for research on labour unions and human rights.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.102
Threshold uncertainty score0.203

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0130.018
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.398
Teacher spread0.370 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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