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The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union," by Sam Gindin.
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Chronicles the 26 collective agreements signed by unions with the International Nickel Company (Inco) in Sudbury from 1944 to 1997. Describes the strikes and production shutdowns of 1958, 1966, 1969, 1975, 1978 , 1982, and 1997. Also includes a list of mining fatalities from 1890 to 1997.
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The article reviews the book, "The Making of Western Labor Radicals: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905," by David Brundage.
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Examines the effects of the sudden plant closings on the principle of freedom of association and the right of workers to organize in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
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This article is based on Final Report: The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize. The report was commissioned by the tri-national Labor Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation (the NAFTA labor commission) "on the effects of the sudden closing of the plant on the principle of freedom of association and the right of workers to organize in the three countries."
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The article reviews the book, "Le Monde du Travail au Québec: Bibliographie = The World of Labour in Quebec: Bibliography," by James Douglas Thwaites and André Leblanc.
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The article reviews the book, "Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity," edited by Thorold J. Tronrud and A. Ernest Epp.
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Canada’s unions have long brought workers together in solidarity and unity to carry on the fight against racism in our workplaces and communities. As we mark Human Rights Day—observed annually on December 10—Canada’s unions are calling out rising hate and racism, and underscoring the path set 25 years ago when they released the National Anti-Racism Task Force report titled Challenging Racism: Going Beyond Recommendations. This ground-breaking report explored systemic racism in union structures, our communities, institutions and society. It highlighted the perspectives, concerns, and recommendations of labour and community activists from across the country. --CLC website news release, Human Rights Day, 2022-12-10
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The article reviews the book, "The Secret World of American Communism," by Harvey Klehr, John E. Haynes and Fridrikh I. Firsov.
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Grievance arbitrators now have a responsibility to interpret and apply human rights legislation in the course of resolving collective agreement disputes. This responsibility, however, raises the question of whether grievance arbitration is the most suitable forum for the application of human rights laws. In Canada, grievance arbitration has been a hybrid process, containing both public and private components. Recent arbitral jurisprudence, however, suggests that arbitrators see themselves as primarily private adjudicators. These cases indicate that arbitrators have been reluctant to give full scope to the duty to accommodate in order to avoid disturbing the terms of the collective agreement. This reluctance to play a full role as human rights adjudicators means that arbitration is not necessarily the most ideal forum for the enforcement of Canadian human rights laws.
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The paper presents findings of an ethnographic case study on social relations in an existing General Motors vehicle assembly plant where the traditional drag chain has been replaced by Swedish automated guided vehicle technology and some aspects of Japanese work organization have been implemented. The findings challenge claims that Fordism is being replaced by a fundamentally new production model, and that this is resulting in more fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many continuities with Fordism and highly contradictory social relations. This and other studies of new work systems suggest, in fact, that contradictions between control and commitment, rather than being minimized or dissolved, can actually be heightened.
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The article reviews the book, "Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, un intellectuel de combat," edited by Robert Comeau and Robert Tremblay.
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In late 1936 steel worker activists in Sydney launched a new organizing drive at the plant under the auspices of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). This effort drew the support of steel workers in a way that previous organizing attempts had not. However, the militant and self-reliant traditions of the steel workers collided with the cautious strategies and bureaucratic practices of the appointed SWOC leadership in the United States and Canada. As steel workers at Sydney showed great solidarity in their struggle with DOSCO, they also resisted what they saw as undemocratic and highly accommodationist practices by the union's national and international leadership. The struggles within the union embraced the issues of Canadian autonomy and nationalism as well as rank-and-file union control and the democratic rights of union members. It amounted to a struggle over what type of unionism was to be established within the Canadian steel industry.
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The article reviews the book, "Grace Hartman: A Woman for her Time," by Susan Crean.
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The article reviews the book, Les vrais maîtres de la forêt québécoise," by Pierre Dubois, preface by Richard Desjardins.
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The article reviews the book, "Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing: With Lessons for Understanding and Survival," by Louise Moser Illes.
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The article reviews the book, "Crossing The Line: Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds," by Jack Quarter.
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The article reviews the book, "Le syndicalisme contemporain et son avenir," edited by Henryk Lewandowski and Zbigniew Hajn.
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The article reviews the book, "Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs," edited by J. Robert Constantine.
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Public exhibitions about work safety assumed an importance for both workers and employers at the beginning of the 20th century that is difficult to evaluate from a late-20th-century perspective. In Quebec, Louis Guyon, chief inspector of industrial establishments and public edifices, noted with interest expositions in Germany and France. Through his efforts the first North American exposition concerning the prevention of accidents was inaugurated in Montreal on 23 September 1901. Only insufficient government funds prevented Guyon from following European models in creating a worker safety museum. Similarly, a worker health museum did not materialize in the province because of funding problems.
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