The Uniting Church has recently outlined a progressive industrial relations policy for dealing with it employees. Some of the guiding principles guiding the new industrial relations policy are:

• A belief that people are not simply human resources alongside other resources
• A workplace that will better enable people to be whole in all their lives
  
• A workplace which encourages, as far as possible, a sharing of insights and skills regarding management of the workplace
• A workplace that encourages the participation of unions and employer organisations.

The leader of the Uniting Church of Victoria and Tasmania gave a speech at the June 28 rally in Melbourne outline the the policy. In a move similar to the stand taken by Yarra Council the Uniting Church seeks to include traditional union rights that are now prohibited under the new workplace laws.

"Some of the following matters are prohibited content in Workplace Agreements, but can be included in legally enforceable side deeds/common-law contracts, policies and procedures and in letters of appointment. The Synod will develop workplace agreements, deeds, contracts, policies and procedures that, within the limits of the law"

more info: Uniting Church Industrial Relations Policy | Speech at IR rally