terprise bargaining is further undermined, as "increasingly the civil courts are playing a grater role in resolving conflict...waterfront dispute between the MUA and Patrick went all the way to the high court of Australia" ( ACCIR, 1999, p. 63). This notion highlights that perhaps the entire aim of having a more "flexible" bargaining systems is failing as we are seeing a to a certain degree civil courts doing the work of "arbitration", this perhaps highlights that enterprise level bargaining cannot sustain the pressures and complexities which arise as a result of complex disputes. Also, it may be concluded that enterprise bargaining struggles in resolving conflict on a "sectoral" level, as seen earlier this year in the Nursing case Richards (2004). It may be that Enterprise Bargaining is more suited for enterprise or workplace level situations rather than industry level.
             Enterprise Bargaining in resolving disputes can also be an effective tool in overcoming the disputes. The aims of EB is to try and negotiate workplace disputes as close as
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