SOSC 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zero-Sum Game, Industrial Unionism, Canadian Labour Congress
26 Jan 2017
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Unions: give job security, better wages and bene ts, improved working conditions, fairness, human rights, equity, strength in unions, so you have more power, provide economic security for working people, union membership is decreasing massively in america. Are they worth it: guys make 10% more, women make even more than that, more likely to have a pension and paid vacation and holidays, reduce income inequality, unions bene t the employer because productivity goes up. 4 issues in the history of the canadian labour movement. Craft unions: unions were a conspiracy against business, skilled craftworkers started to organize, the printers were the rst to go on strike, they resisted mechanization, and factories. Winnipeg general strike, june 21, 1919: soldiers came back and were laid off. The industrial unions became entrenched, meaning they were very powerful: the craft and industry labour unions merged to make the canadian labour congress.
