SOSC 2210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fide, Working Time, Dual Role
7 Dec 2016
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Ontario public sector workers face enough negotiation - case study. Ontario bans strike by ttc - case study. When your boss is the state: the paradoxes of public sector work. Of course for public and private sector workers the issues negotiated through collective bargaining are not fundamentally different. Bargaining on both ends i generally concerned with: Main difference is the dual role of the state as an employer and as sovereign legislator. When your boss is the state workers issues and concerns exists within a different context of power relations. Passed by the federal government - removed the criminal taint on labour unions. Even to request a wage increase was deemed grounds for termination termination. Despite criminal consequences public employees still banded together in voluntary associations to fight for better work place rights. The first was established by postal workers in 1889. No legal or ideological basis to support their claims, relied heavily on employer beneficence.
