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Canadian Labour Revolt. The Canadian Labour Revolt was a loosely connected series of strikes, riots, and labour conflicts that took place across Canada between 1918 and 1925, largely organized by the One Big Union (OBU). [1][2] It was caused by a variety of factors including rising costs of living, unemployment, intensity of work, the ...
1952 – First Peace Arch concert by musician and labour activist Paul Robeson. 1956 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed through the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour. [40] 1956 – Nova Scotia - Springhill mining disaster. 39 were killed.
The October Crisis (French: Crise d'Octobre) was a chain of political events in Canada that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence. These events saw the Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau ...
Jacob Mincer Award (2019) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021) Information at IDEAS / RePEc. David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian-American [4] labour economist and the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 1997.
The labour movement[a] is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of the trade union or labour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considered an instance of class conflict. In trade unions, workers campaign for higher wages, better working ...
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in Canadian history. [1] For six weeks, May 15 to June 26, more than 30,000 strikers brought economic activity to a standstill in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which at the time was Canada's third largest city. In the short term, the strike ended in arrests, bloodshed ...
0–9. 1914 Saint John street railway strike. 1918 Vancouver general strike. 1946 Stelco strike. 1992 NHL strike. 1994–95 NHL lockout. 1997 Ontario teachers' strike. 2004–05 NHL lockout. 2012–13 NHL lockout.
Snider, 55 O.L.R. 454. Toronto Electric Commissioners v Snider[1] is a Canadian constitutional decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council where the Council struck down the federal Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, precursor to the Canada Labour Code. The Court identified matters in relation to labour to be within the exclusive ...