Demarcation dispute

{{Short description|Dispute over which union members have the "right" to perform a task}}{{Needs more references|date=February 2024}}{{Distinguish|Demarcation problem}}{{Portal|Organized labour}}

A demarcation dispute may involve disagreement between trade unions, craft organisations or professional groups over which workers are to perform certain tasks or which trade union or organisations will represent a particular group of workers, especially in enterprises with multiple trade unionism or skilled trades.{{Cite book |last1=Heery |first1=Edmund |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199298761.001.0001/acref-9780199298761-e-274. |title=A dictionary of human resource management |last2=Noon |first2=Mike |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-929876-1 |edition=2nd |location=Oxford |chapter=Demarcation dispute}}{{Cite book |last=Eldridge |first=J. E. T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oc6AAAAAQBAJ |title=Industrial Disputes: Essays in the Sociology of Industrial Relations |publisher=Routledge |year=1968 |isbn=978-1-136-25234-1 |publication-date=2013-08-21 |pages=91–93 |language=en}} This is particularly important in compulsory arbitration systems of industrial relations, as in Australia; where only one union may be the registered representative of a particular classification of worker.