The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in Canadian history. 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 and defeat,but in the long run it contributed to the development of a stronger labour movement and the tradition of social democratic politics in Canada.
Canada Post Corporation,trading as Canada Post,is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada.
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries,working conditions,benefits,and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers. The interests of the employees are commonly presented by representatives of a trade union to which the employees belong. A collective agreement reached by these negotiations functions as a labour contract between an employer and one or more unions,and typically establishes terms regarding wage scales,working hours,training,health and safety,overtime,grievance mechanisms,and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs. Such agreements can also include 'productivity bargaining' in which workers agree to changes to working practices in return for higher pay or greater job security.
The Canadian Labour Congress,or CLC is a national trade union centre,the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated.
William Julian Usery Jr. was an American labor union activist and government appointee who served as United States secretary of labor in the Ford administration.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada is one of Canada's largest national labour unions. It is the largest union in the Canadian federal public sector. PSAC members work in every province and territory,and also work abroad in embassies and consulates.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees is a Canadian trade union serving the public sector –although it has in recent years organized workplaces in the non-profit and para-public sector as well. CUPE–SCFP is the largest union in Canada,representing some 700,000 workers in health care,education,municipalities,libraries,universities,social services,public utilities,transportation,emergency services and airlines. Over 60 per cent of CUPE–SCFP's members are women,and almost a third are part-time workers. CUPE–SCFP is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress and is its greatest financial contributor.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is a public-sector trade union representing postal workers including letter carriers,rural and suburban mail carriers,postal clerks,mail handlers and dispatchers,technicians,mechanics and electricians employed at Canada Post as well as private sector workers outside Canada Post. Currently comprising upwards of 50,000 members,the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has historically been labeled as militant because of some of the actions undertaken since its inception in 1965 to help guarantee rights to all postal workers. According to former president Jean-Claude Parrot,"We succeeded to get the support of the membership because we earned our credibility with them...we got that reputation [of militancy] because we earned it."
The British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF) is the labour union that represents all public school teachers in the province of British Columbia,Canada. It was established as an organization in 1917.
AMAPCEO,formerly known as the Association of Management,Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario,is a Canadian trade union representing mid-level public servants in Ontario. It was founded in 1992,recognized as a union by the provincial government in 1995,and negotiated its first collective agreement in 1996. As of March 2022,AMAPCEO represents over 14,000 professional and supervisory public servants who either work directly for the Government of Ontario in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) or in seven bargaining units outside the OPS in the Broader Public Sector (BPS). It is the second-largest public sector union in Ontario after the Ontario Public Service Employees Union,which generally represents more blue-collar workers.
The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was an eight-day strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. The strike began in New York City and spread to some other cities in the following two weeks. This strike against the federal government,regarded as illegal,was the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history.
Labor relations or labor studies is a field of study that can have different meanings depending on the context in which it is used. In an international context,it is a subfield of labor history that studies the human relations with regard to work in its broadest sense and how this connects to questions of social inequality. It explicitly encompasses unregulated,historical,and non-Western forms of labor. Here,labor relations define "for or with whom one works and under what rules. These rules determine the type of work,type and amount of remuneration,working hours,degrees of physical and psychological strain,as well as the degree of freedom and autonomy associated with the work." More specifically in a North American and strictly modern context,labor relations is the study and practice of managing unionized employment situations. In academia,labor relations is frequently a sub-area within industrial relations,though scholars from many disciplines including economics,sociology,history,law,and political science also study labor unions and labor movements. In practice,labor relations is frequently a subarea within human resource management. Courses in labor relations typically cover labor history,labor law,union organizing,bargaining,contract administration,and important contemporary topics.
The Wartime Labour Relations Regulations,adopted under the War Measures Act on 17 February 1944,were introduced in Canada during World War II by the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Drafted loosely on the American Wagner Act,it was the first federal legislation in Canada to legally protect the formation of unions and to force employers to negotiate with organized workers. It was a foundational framework for legislation of union rights in Canada. The provisions of the order were later replicated by Acts of all the provincial legislatures.
A collective agreement,collective labour agreement (CLA) or collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is a written contract negotiated through collective bargaining for employees by one or more trade unions with the management of a company that regulates the terms and conditions of employees at work. This includes regulating the wages,benefits,and duties of the employees and the duties and responsibilities of the employer or employers and often includes rules for a dispute resolution process.
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) is a Canadian trade union operating solely in the province of Alberta. With approximately 95,000 members as of March 2019,it is Alberta's largest union. AUPE is primarily a public sector union,with members employed in government,health care,education,boards and agencies,municipalities,and occasionally private companies.
A master contract or master agreement is a collective bargaining agreement which covers all unionized worksites in an industry,market or company,and which establishes the terms and conditions of employment common to all workers in the industry,market or company.
A public-sector trade union is a trade union which primarily represents the interests of employees within public sector or governmental organizations.
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan [2015] 1 SCR 245 is a Canadian labour law case on the right to strike.
The 2018 York University strike was a strike by CUPE Local 3903,the union representing contract professors,teaching assistants,and graduate assistants at York University. At 143 days long it is the longest strike in the post-secondary sector in Canadian history,surpassing the previous record of the 1976 Laval University 108-day strike. It ended on July 25,when the Ontario Legislature passed the Urgent Priorities Act back-to-work legislation.
The 2021 New Brunswick public sector strike was labour strike in the Canadian province of New Brunswick involving employees of the provincial government,represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). In October 2021,the workers voted to take strike action.
