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Les fortes poussées inflationnistes de la dernière decennia n'ont pas manqué de soulever un intérêt marquee chez plusieurs groupes sociaux, dont les travailleurs organisés, en faveur de l'indexation de leurs revenus. Quelles sont les caractéristiques principals du phénomène d'indexation des salaires au Canada? Quelle en est l'étendue? quels facteurs permettent d'en expliquer l'évolution dans le temps? quel est et comment mesurer le degré d'efficacité de tells clauses dans les conventions collectives? quels en sont les effets sur les structures de salaires, tant au niveau local que national, sur les coûts de production et sur l'inflation? Voilà parmi d'autres un certain nombre de questions qui préoccupent tant l'analyste que l'acteur immédiat du système de relations industrielles. Parmi les quelques etudes récentes sur le sujet au Canada, deux ont suscité des commentaires critiques particulièrement au niveau du concept d'efficacité des clauses d'indexation et de sa mesure. La première réalisée par Jean-Michel Cousineau et Robert Lacroix1 de l'Université de Montréal utilise des données inédites de Travail Canada sur l'ensemble des conventions de 200 employés et plus au Canada, à l'exclusion du secteur de la construction, et couvre la période1970 à 1977. Dans la seconde, Sharon Michaud et Jean-Charles Roy2 de Travail Canada appuient leurs observations sur des données provenant des conventions collectives de 500 employés et plus au Canada, à l'exclusion du secteur de la construction, signees entre janvier 1978 et décembre 1980. Étant donné la preoccupation commune qui anime certains commentaires, le lecteur trouvera dans l'ordre les commentaires d'André Viel et Jacques Chouinard du Bureau de recherche sur la rémunération (Québec) sur l'étude de Cousineau et Lacroix suivis de la réplique des auteurs et les commentaires de Jean-Marc Robichaud et Jacques Chouinard du Bureau de recherche sur la rémunération (Québec) sur l'étude de Michaud et Roy également suivis de la réplique des auteur.

Les auteurs tentent de décrire au mieux, au cours de la période comprise entre le 15 juin 1978 et le 16 juillet 1979, l'activité sur le plan de la concurrence entre les diverses organisations syndicales oeuvrant au Québec. Après avoir brièvement décrit certaines coordonnées juridiques relatives à ce phénomène, les auteurs précisent les sources de données auxquelles ils ont puisé leurs renseignements et ils se livrent à une analyse des résultats obtenus.

L'auteur analyse le rôle de chacune des parties dans l'élaboration et l'implantation d'une méthode d'évaluation, dans l'évaluation proprement dite du groupe d'emplois qu'elles ont déterminé, dans la réévaluation des emplois modifiés ainsi que dans la procédure à suivre en cas de grief et d'arbitrage en matière d'évaluation.

Historical drama of the coal miners' strike and riot in Estevan, Saskatchewan, in 1931.

This article reviews the book, "Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Volume I : Non-Manual Unions," by Arthur Marsh & Victoria Ryan.

This article reviews the book, "L’Église d’ici et le social 1940-1960, 1. La Commission sacerdotale d’Études sociales," by Jacques Cousineau.

This article reviews the book, "L’évolution des systèmes de travail dans l’économie moderne," by Éditions du CNRS.

Jacob Lawrence Cohen was a prominent Canadian labour and civil rights lawyer in the 1930's and 1940's. Cohen was instrumental in negotiating a number of landmark labour disputes that helped pioneer legislation in Canada. He also defended a number of trade unionists, many of whom were Communist, imprisoned under the War Measures Act. His staunch defense of society's underdogs brought him a great deal of respect and notoriety. Cohen's career reflected many of the tensions of Canadian society in the period. The growth of industrial unionism, the development of progressive labour legislation and a growing fear of Communism, all touched him professionally and personally. His brilliant career ended abruptly in 1946 after his conviction of assault. His trial raises a number of questions about the judicial system. After a four year struggle in the courts, Cohen's law practice resumed in 1950 but he failed to regain his former prominence. He died in May 1950. J.L. Cohen had a great impact in developing and fighting for progressive labour laws to deal with the changing society of the 1930's and the 1940's. He was in the centre of a turbulent period in Canadian history as counsel in diverse and unpopular legal cases. Many of his struggles helped legitimize the aspirations of the labour movement and develop the legal and jurisdictional regulations that govern all trade unions today.

This paper extends and updates the research of Professor Jamieson on strike activity in British Columbia for the period 1945-1975.

We are apt to think of labour unions as a feature of a relatively advanced industrial society. It comes as a surprise to many to learn how long ago in Canadian history they actually appeared. Unions already existed in the predominantly rural British North America of the early nineteenth century. There were towns and cities with construction workers, foundry workers, tailors, shoemakers, and printers; there were employers and employees - and their interests were not the same. From this beginning Dr Forsey traces the evolutions of trade unions in the early years and presents an important archival foundation for the study of Canadian labour. He presents profiles of all unions of the period - craft, industrial, local, regional, national, and international - as well as of the Knights of Labor and the local and national central organizations. He provides a complete account of unions and organizations in every province including their formation and function, time and place of operation, what they did or attempted to do (including their political activity), and their particular philosophies. This volume will be of interest and value to those concerned with labour and union history, and those with a general interest in the history of Canada. --Publisher's description

The authors examine long term variations in the level of strike activity in Canada between 1926 and 1974 by examining the effects of several économie and organizational variables on the pattern of industrial conflict.

Today the giant Stelco steel mills in Hamilton are shut down, but in Canada’s turbulent labour history it was a place of protracted conflict between the stubborn, anti-union management of the company and the equally stubborn and militant Local 1005 of the Steelworkers Union. The story is a fascinating one – a microcosm of the larger labour/management struggles in Canada. Among the events the book explores includes: the battle from 1919 to 1944 to establish a union in the face of hostile management; the struggle for supremacy at 1005 between Communist and CCF factions; the 1946 strike for union recognition which became the post war showdown in Canada between unions and management; and the chaotic 1966 wildcat strike that tore the union apart. The book tells the story of Local 1005 and at the same time explores the nature of political life in a local union, and the social and economic forces that shaped the politics of the local. This is a book that describes how working people struggled to improve their lives, and in the process changed the history of the trade union movement and the nature of Canadian political life. --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "The Dynamics of Industrial Conflict, Lessons from Ford," by Henry Friedman & Sander Meredeen.

After having addressed the concept of tripartism and the issues of corporatism and incomes policies, the author examines the background to the imposition of controls and the subsequent tripartism debate. Finally, the author focuses on the main stages in the negociations over controls and tripartism, with particular reference to major shifts in CLC policy and strategy.

This article reviews the book, "Working People, An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour," by Desmond Morton & Terry Copp.