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Refinery Town in the Petrostate: Organized Labour Confronts the Oil Patch in Western Canada

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Title
Refinery Town in the Petrostate: Organized Labour Confronts the Oil Patch in Western Canada
Abstract
In 2019, Regina’s Co-operative Refinery Complex locked out the 730 members of Unifor Local 594 amid record profits in an aggressive drive for significant pension concessions. Marred by sweeping antipicketing injunctions, an enormous scab operation, police repression, and general public enmity, the lockout suggests two overlapping trends. First, the union’s adherence to co-operative and conciliatory bargaining had left it ill equipped to confront—either in the workplace or the public sphere—management’s costcutting agenda in the centre of Saskatchewan’s now hegemonic petrostate. Second, a marked tension developed between community outreach efforts and the circumstances in which legal industrial action was ineffective and civil disobedience emerged.
Publication
Studies in Political Economy
Volume
104
Issue
1
Pages
1-21
Date
2023
Language
English
ISSN
0707-8552
Short Title
Refinery Town in the Petrostate
Accessed
7/24/23, 1:56 PM
Library Catalog
Taylor and Francis+NEJM
Extra
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2023.2186010
Citation
Stevens, A., & Nesbitt, D. (2023). Refinery Town in the Petrostate: Organized Labour Confronts the Oil Patch in Western Canada. Studies in Political Economy, 104(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2023.2186010