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Record W7128608303 · doi:10.1093/jhuman/huaf030

Labour Unions and Human Rights in Australia

2025· article· en· W7128608303 on OpenAlex
Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

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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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.854
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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