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Roy J. Adams. (2006). Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right. Ottawa : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 152 pages.
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Labour Relations Practices of Nonprofits Acting as For-Profits: An Explainable Dissonance
Get PDFThis article seeks to connect two seemingly distinct phenomena. Labour disputes in the nonprofit sector and the pressure nonprofits have undergone to become more economically and operationally efficient. The article describes the antics of some nonprofits in Ontario, and equates them with similar tactics that are employed by mega corporations that are notorious for their mistreatment of employees. The article endeavors to find a correlation between the mistreatment of employees by nonprofits and the ever-growing pressure, nonprofits have had to endure in recent years, to become more efficient. The author argues that the ethics of efficiency and corporate-like models of operation bring along other characteristics of for-profit businesses that may explain actions taken by nonprofits that are otherwise in direct contrast with everything they stand for
Affirmative Action Positions for Women on the Canadian Labour Congress Executive: Comments to the Advancing the Equity Agenda Conference
Get PDFHeron, Craig. 2003. Booze: A Distilled History. Toronto: Between the Lines, 497 pages, incl. illustrations.
Get PDFSlaughter, Jane (Ed.) A Troublemaker’s Handbook 2: How to Fight Back Where Your Work – And Win! Michigan: Labor Notes, 379 pages.
Get PDFThe Work Stoppages Data from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada [HRSDC]: A Research Note
Get PDFAs part of a research program on worker militancy, this note presents an overview of the data on work stoppages from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada [HRSDC] (previously Human Resources Development Canada [HRDC]) with reference to the 21261 strikes from 1966-2001. It unpacks the definitions embedded in 'work stoppage', considers how to group strikes by number of workers and duration, comments on the contract status and result variables, and discusses how strike issues are coded.Several themes emerge. The state's major interest in strikes relates to their economic impact, which is operationalized through 'person days lost'. A shift from 'person days lost', to worker militancy allows for revealing re-interpretations of the data which will help make visible the relevance of such stoppages to workers, unions and communities. Examining the HRSDC data in this new light also underscores the political nature of data collection (what is seen to be germane and not), and data presentation (what is made visible and what is concealed)
Jackson, Andrew. 2005. Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press. 252 pages, incl. illustrations.
Get PDFSocial Movement Unionism and Progressive Public Policy in New York City
Get PDFThis paper explores the state of social movement unionism in New York City and how labour-community coalitions are forging a progressive public policy agenda. Based on twenty formal interviews with labour leaders and nearly a decade of practice working in the city’s social and economic justice movement, it appears that unions are increasingly interested in coupling efforts to improve wages and working conditions with broader strategies for growth – namely, levelling the playing field for organizing through public policy reform and pursuing a legislative strategy of social, economic, and environmental justice that will give the broader public more of a reason to want to join a union. However, the New York City labour movement faces a number of obstacles – including union democracy issues, a new generation of conservative union leaders, and increasingly conservative municipal, state, and federal administrations – towards adopting social movement unionism and a progressive public policy platfor