‘Stay tuned’: Canada’s unions considering legal action to protect right to strike
https://nationalpost.com/news/canadas-unions-considering-legal-action-to-protect-right-to-strike
‘Stay tuned’: Canada’s unions considering legal action to protect right to strike
https://nationalpost.com/news/canadas-unions-considering-legal-action-to-protect-right-to-strike
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For those unaware, this only affects federally regulated industries, which is a tiny portion
(3%) of the workforce. Think banks, airlines, TV and radio stations, phone and Internet service providers, people working for the federal government, etc. This is about amendments to the Canada Labour Code, and most workers are not protected by it because most people don’t work in those industries.
They have the right to strike. The government is giving themself the ability to step in _if_ the strike could harm the country in some way. People thinking that Canada, of all places, is going to abuse this power are lucky enough to be so coddled.
Keep in mind our entire postal service went on strike for months. People couldn’t get medicine, mail, packages, etc. delivered. And Canada didn’t even step in then (when they absolutely should have).
i can’t think of a single use of 107 in canada that didn’t either fail to resolve the issues at hand or worsen them by intervening clumsily and without enough sense to be patient and listen to both sides
Small c conservative doing conservative things. I knew he was going to assault the ability to strike. Hell, even the previous Liberal government had no respect for unions. It wasn’t going to be all sunshine and roses with this government for left of centre people. We have to deal with it.
My union agreement says im not allowed to strike….
It seems to me that the federal government understands how to make deals. How about the Canadian labour movement make a deal with the federal government that for this period of economic duress, they make certain concessions and the feds make certain concessions.
But to operate under the terms of we need to defend our members like it’s 2019 just proves the Canadian labour movement has their heads up their butts.
Danielle Smith, laughing.
You thought liberals were pro union?
Ask anyone in the former TWU. TWU since has been absorbed into USW.
Elbows up, knees down.
yeah baybeee. let’s goooo!
I support the right for proles to strike, but not professional people. How is our blessed Constitution going to deal with that attitude if it gets around?
Isn’t it funny how national interests often ignore the interests of most in a nation?
I’m pro union as fuck but our sovereignty being threatened is also not a time to be striking for more and more and more. We can’t take systemic shutdowns right now. I feel like the reality is things are headed quickly in a terrible direction.
Why doesn’t everyone just quit? In a social contract setting, laws and regulations don’t work if none of you are compliant.
How is this world news? The proposed bill was just introduced yesterday, and hadn’t even been debated or made it to second reading yet. This is anything but international news.
What the fuck are they going to do?
Seriously, when I was part of a union, all they ever said, “this is a good deal, if you reject it they will come back with something worse” (79% approved, and they tauted it like a win after fear-mongering everyone to sign) or “this is part of an agreement outside the contract, and it will be fulfilled”, when they know fully well the Supreme Court had previously said the changes were allowed with a new contract. So when push came to shove, they cancelled the agreement 2 months after it was signed. Now the union is suing to get it back, but we all know it won’t happen.
And just so we know this is one of the biggest unions in Canada, PSAC. More like a sac of P. The worst part was when there was a national strike, all the departments signed agreements and went back to work, while we were left for a month just striking. The whole time they were saying, we don’t sign a deal unless we all have a deal.
Once again Canadian railroad workers get slapped in the face. There was already practically no effort by the class 1 railroads to negotiate in any way, now they won’t even have to pretend.