Collective Bargaining in Canada, 2nd Edition
Human Rights or Canadian Illusion?
“Canada’s reputation as an international champion of human rights falls appallingly short when it comes to the question of workers’ rights. While we are among the first nations to sign international labour conventions, too often we break them when they prove inconvenient at home. This timely and valuable publication chronicles a list of these abuses, and challenges us as a nation to reclaim our once shining international reputation.”
About the book
“Canada’s reputation as an international champion of human rights falls appallingly short when it comes to the question of workers’ rights. While we are among the first nations to sign international labour conventions, too often we break them when they prove inconvenient at home. This timely and valuable publication chronicles a list of these abuses, and challenges us as a nation to reclaim our once shining international reputation.” –ED BROADBENT, FORMER MP
What people are saying
Judy Fudge, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University“This study recounts how freedom of association and collective bargaining have been cut back across Canada since the 1980s. It poses an important challenge to policy makers: will Canada live up to its international obligations and treat freedom of association and collective bargaining as fundamental human rights?”
Contents
- Foreword
- Section I-Introduction and Summary
- Section II-The Idea of Free Collective Bargaining
- Section III-The Dream Becomes a Universal Human Right
- Section IV-Canada’s Commitment
- Section V-Collective Bargaining Comes to Canada
- Section VI-Rights Under Attack
- Section VII-The ILO Responds: Canada Condemned
- Section VIII-The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Courts
- Section IX-So Where Do We Stand Now?
- Section X-Restoring Workers’ Rights and Fairness in Canada’s Labour Laws
- Section XI-Appendices
- References
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