Canada's Unions
Canada's Unions

Author: Robert Laxer

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780888620965

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This book presents a picture of Canada's labour movement in the mid-seventies--its structure, its leaders, and aims. Two parallel themes run through Canada's Unions: the surge in labour militancy led by teachers, hospital workers, federal government workers and other public employees in response to the pressure of rising inflation; and the rise of nationalism and the increasing independence of the Canadian union movement during the 1970s. Canada's Union offers an unparalleled, immediate portrait of the state of the Canadian labour movement during a crucial decade of its existence.

Union Learning
Union Learning

Author: Jeffery M. Taylor

Publisher: Thompson Educational Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781550771176

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Over 100,000 Canadian workers participate annually in educational programs conducted by their union or the broader labour organizations to which their union belongs. Union-based education is the most significant non-vocational education available to working people. This activity has been going on for decades, and Jeffery Taylor's Union Learning: Canadian Labour Education in the Twentieth Century is the first comprehensive history of it. Union Learning chronicles the rise and decline of the Workers' Educational Association, the development of internal union educational programs, the consolidation of the Canadian Labour Congress's educational system after 1956, the origin and growth of the Labour College of Canada, and the patchy history of university and college involvement in labour education. Taylor argues that a new emphasis on broad-based and activist education today promises to rekindle the sense of an educational movement that was present in the labour movement in the 1930s and 1940s. The book includes a number of illustrative sidebars and photographs. He has developed a website containing images, video and other materials related to the history of labour education in Canada: http: //unionlearning.athabascau.ca

Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal
Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal

Author: Janice R. Foley

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0774858982

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Trade unions in Canada are losing their traditional support base, and membership numbers could sink to US levels unless unions recapture their power. Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal brings together a distinguished group of union activists and equity scholars who trace how traditional union cultures, practices, and structures have eroded solidarity and activism and created an equity deficit in Canadian unions. Informed by a feminist vision of unions as instruments of social justice, the contributors argue that equity within unions is not simply one possible path to union renewal � it is the only way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers' lives.

Unions Matter
Unions Matter

Author: Matthew Behrens

Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781771131322

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The paradox of American unionism
The paradox of American unionism

Author: Seymour Martin Lipset

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780801442001

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The authors examine the reluctance of Americans to join unions, even though they greatly approve of the institution, comparing the experience of Canada, where union numbers are higher but the approval rating much lower. They uncover deep-seated differences in identity and outlook between the two countries.

My Union, My Life
My Union, My Life

Author: Jean-Claude Parrot

Publisher: Halifax [N.S.] : Fernwood Pub.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781552661642

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This personal memoir of Jean-Claude Parrot, the national president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for 15 years, doubles as the story of the labor union`s formation and rise to fame.

Unions in Court
Unions in Court

Author: Larry Savage

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0774835419

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Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike. But how did the labour movement, historically hostile to judicial intervention in labour relations, come to embrace legal activism as a first line of defense as opposed to a last resort? Unions in Court documents the evolution of the Canadian labour movement’s engagement with the Charter, demonstrating how and why labour has adopted a controversial, Charter-based legal strategy to challenge and change legislation that restricts union rights. This book’s in-depth examination of constitutional labour rights will have critical implications for labour movements as well as activists in other fields.

Magnificent Fight
Magnificent Fight

Author: Dennis Lewycky

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Published: 2019-04-29T00:00:00Z

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1773630989

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In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked away from their jobs, shutting down large factories, forcing businesses to close and bringing major industries to a halt. Mounted police and hired security, at the behest of the ruling class, violently ended the protest after six weeks. Two men were killed. What started as trade union revolt, the Winnipeg General Strike became a mass protest and was branded as a revolution. In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike. He also illustrates the effects the strike had on workers, unions and all three levels of government in the following decades. Far from a simple retelling of the General Strike, Magnificent Fight speaks to the power of workers’ solidarity and social organization. And Lewycky reveals the length the capitalist class and the state went to in protecting the status quo. By retelling the story of the Strike through the eyes of those who witnessed it, Lewycky’s account is both educational and entertaining.

Education for Changing Unions
Education for Changing Unions

Author: Bev Burke

Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Education for Changing Unions presents a rich, stimulating, and provocative storehouse of practical and structured activities, ideas, and debate about union education. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors have created a book to inspire working people and teachers in many settings and locations. All the exercises and activities have been widely tested. Six thematic threads tie the book together: community, democracy, equity, class consciousness, organization building, and the greater good. Evaluation, strategic planning, and survival for the long haul round out the discussion. See also the popular companion book, Educating for a Change, Martin et al. (BTL, 1991).