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This article discusses Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards and Your Voice at Work: Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. During the past decade a strong international consensus has emerged that holds that a set of core labor rights should be regarded as fundamental human rights. The appearance of these 2 reports indicates that the situation is rapidly changing.
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What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace, edited by Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes, is reviewed.
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Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 8th edition, compiled by the Labour Law Casebook Group, is reviewed.
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The book, "International and comparative employment relations: Globalization and the Developed Market Economies," edited by Greg J. Bambier, Russell D. Lansbury, and Nick Wailes, is reviewed.
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The author analyses the operation of employment standards in Ontario using the industrial relations Systems framework.
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This article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations in the Future. Trends and Possibilities in Britain over the Next Decade," by Michael Poole, William Brown, Jill Rubery, Keith Sisson, Roger Tarling & Frank Wilkinson.
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This article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations in Europe. The Imperatives of Change," by B.C. Roberts, Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek & Marino Regini. This article reviews the book, "Economic Crisis. Trade Unions and the State," by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek & Marino Regini.
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A Commission of Inquiry on Educational Leave and Productivity recommended the establishment of a training levy scheme in Canada. In this paper the author discusses why such a scheme is necessary, how it might work, what it might cost, and what it would accomplish.
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The proposed British legislation is modelled on that of the United States which has been a clear failure in its stated goal of encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining (Adams, 1993). It has instead perpetuated a culture of labour-management animosity that many other nations have 113been able, to their benefit, to overcome (Adams, 1995c).
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Commentary on Brian Langille's paper, "Can We Rely on the ILO?”
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This article is a critical review of "Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case," by Fay Faraday, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker.
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The article reviews the book, "Management And Labour In Europe," by Christel Lane.
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This exploratory survey aims at presenting some of the characteristics of full-time union field officers.
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In this article, the "solidarity" argument is questioned on both theoretical and empirical grounds. It is argued instead that the unionization differential between the two continents may be more adequately explained in terms of differences on key dimensions of the existing industrial relations systems.
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The article reviews the book, "Firms as Political Entities -- Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism," by Isabelle Ferreras.
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The central focus of this article is the effort by Canadian unions to organize Wal-Mart. Organizing the world's largest corporation is considered to be critical because the company's business "template" calls for wages and benefits considerably inferior to those of unionized workers. To date, although a few bargaining units have been certified, Wal-Mart has managed to thwart all attempts to negotiate collective agreements. However, because the United Food and Commercial Workers have certified units in a few provinces with first contract arbitration, the achievement, eventually, of a collective agreement appears to be likely.
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The author attempts to improve upon a certain number of collective bargaining coverage estimates mainly by reviewing union membership data in Canada.