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submitted 3 days ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The full text of section 107 says that the federal minister responsible for labour may “do such things as to the Minister seem likely to maintain or secure industrial peace and to promote conditions favourable to the settlement of industrial disputes or differences and to those ends the Minister may refer any question to the Board or direct the Board to do such things as the Minister deems necessary.”

Since June 2024, section 107 has been invoked eight times to interfere with bargaining or end strikes, including those by postal workers, flight attendants and railway workers.

“When big corporations complain, the government caves,” Gazan said while tabling the bill on Monday. “This is a direct violation of workers’ rights, the right to strike and the right to free collective bargaining. These rights were won through generations of struggle and sacrifice, yet government after government violates the rights of workers whenever it is politically convenient.”

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[-] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Show your math. Otherwise doing self assigned math on wikipedia numbers doesn't cut it. Show us the math and numbers and why those math and numbers.

Three important points here.

  1. Union membership never surpassed 40% but the residual effects may still effect culture and policy after peak membership.

  2. Is it 20% of population or workers?

  3. Women entered the workplace during this time may skew results/percentages.

What's undeniably true is that union membership increases as one gets closer to the depression era (both before and after) and that income share of the owners of companies and high earners is inversely correlated to union membership.

But yeah the union forcing unproductive/unnecessary work is wrong.

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