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First Contract Arbitration and the Employee Free Choice Act : Multi-Jurisdictional Evidence from Canada
Slinn, Sara J.; Hurd, Richard W. - 2011
First contract arbitration (FCA) provisions are posed as a solution to the difficulties of negotiating a first contract for newly certified bargaining units. FCA is a longstanding, and no longer controversial, element of Canadian labor legislation. FCA provisions now exist in six Canadian...
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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …
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Time to Tweak or Re-Boot? Assessing the Interest Arbitration Process in Canadian Industrial Relations
Chaykowski, Richard P. - 2019
Interest arbitration, or third-party arbitration, is an essential element of the Canadian industrial relations system, with considerable impact on the public interest, particularly in relation to public-sector industries. As an instrument of labour relations policy, interest arbitration has...
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The Doctrine of Inequality of Bargaining Power and Non-Competition Clauses in Canadian Employment Law
Doorey, David J. - 2023
In 2021, the Ontario government legislatively prohibited most non-competition clauses, the first Canadian government to take this step. The move was unexpected because the political party in power (the Progressive Conservative Party, or PCP) has not traditionally been a strong supporter of...
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Structuring Reality So That the Law Will Follow : British Columbia Teachers' Quest for Collective Bargaining Rights
Slinn, Sara J. - 2014
The British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF), representing all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the province, is one of the largest and most powerful unions in British Columbia. BCTF has always sought formal rights to full-scope collective bargaining, and unrestricted...
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Understanding the dynamics of inequity in collective bargaining : evidence from Australia, Canada, Denmark and France
Barton, Ruth; Béthoux, Élodie; Dupuy, Camille; … - In: Transfer : the European review of labour and research ; … 27 (2021) 1, pp. 113-128
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The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union Density Rates: Evidence from Canadian Provinces.
Scott Legree, Tammy Schirle, Mikal Skuterud - Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics - 2014
the favorability to unions of Canadian provincial labour relations statutes to changes in provincial union density rates … between 1981 and 2012. The results suggest that shifting every province’s 2012 legal regime to the most union …-friendly possible could raise the national union density by up to 7 percentage points in the long run. This effect appears driven by …
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Are Public Services Still Essential in Quebec?
Fontaine, Laurence-Léa - 2010
In the event of a legal strike affecting the provision of some public services and the public and parapublic sectors, the parties in the dispute must ensure that the activity is partly maintained due to its critical nature. In other words, the legislator sometimes compels them to provide...
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First Contract Arbitration : Effects on Bargaining and Work Stoppages
Johnson, Susan J.T - 2010
Newly certified unions often experience difficulty negotiating a first agreement. To remedy this, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) proposes that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) provide for first contract arbitration. Using a panel of Canadian jurisdictions that have introduced FCA...
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'Regulating Labor Disputes in the Police Services : Legal & Practical Perspectives from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada'
Carabetta, Giuseppe - 2021
Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, have not seen a police strike in living memory. The reason for this is the mandatory interest arbitration model adopted in the two provinces, which sees disputes that cannot be resolved by mutual bargaining referred to a panel of arbitrators who assess...
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