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In 1965, Canada Post workers illegally walked out for two weeks and won the right to collective bargaining for all public sector employees. [1] This resulted in them throwing out the leadership of the company union and forming the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
The right of workers to strike and picket against their employer is constitutionally protected in Canada, according to the Supreme Court of Canada's 2015 ruling in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan. The right to strike is an essential part of a meaningful collective bargaining process in our system of labour relations...
(A non-union affiliate of the NDP, the Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship, based in Edmonton, carried on socialist education from 1962 to about 2000. [43]) September 10, 1961 -– A Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers meeting at the Sudbury Arena, regarding the union's controversial proposal to merge with the United Steelworkers, erupts into a riot.
U.S. railroad operator Union Pacific has warned that a potential rail strike in Canada will have "devastating consequences" on the North American economy. More than 2,500 Union Pacific cars per ...
History of illegal union firings in the United States. Union busting in the United States dates at least to the 19th century, when a rapid expansion in factories and manufacturing capabilities caused a migration of workers from agricultural work to the mining, manufacturing and transportation industries. Conditions were often unsafe, women ...
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is the largest public sector union in Canada, representing 159,000 public service workers, [1] [8] of which 120,000 fall under the Treasury Board of Canada and 39,000 are Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employees under the Union of Taxation Employees (UTE) component of PSAC.
The Chicago Teachers Union, which represents the city’s 25,000 school educators, has been locked in negotiations with Chicago Public Schools for months over the gradual reopening of schools for ...
[30] [31] The union priorities were to address inflation and wages, job automation and port automation and contracting out work. [32] Federal labour minister Seamus O'Regan stated all options were available, leaving the possibility for back-to-work legislation, but it was ultimately not needed to resolve the dispute. [33] [34]