MGMT 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Industrial Unionism, Craft Unionism
8 May 2018
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MGMT 1030
Lecture 15
- Impact of the Great Depression (1929)
o UE increased
o Local municipalities responsible for relief
o Reduction in strike activity
o Government created relief camps to address UE crisis
o ‘On to Ottawa’ Trek (1935)
- Influence of US labour laws
o Roosevelt and The New Deal
▪ Americans formed unions earlierindustrial unions came
to Canada in the 30s and 40s from the US
o 1930smass production lead to more unskilled workers; lead
to decreased in craft unionism
o National Labour Relations Act (1935)
o Legalized collective bargaining
- Rise of militant ‘industrial unionism’
o Split within the AFL
o Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)
o Lots of unions became successful during WW2
o TLC expels unions (1949) anti-Communism (due to Cold
War)
▪ Workers that belonged to a union were thought to be
communists (very repressive era)
o Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) merger b/w CIO &
ACCL
- Impact of WW2(1939-1945)
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