LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Winnipeg General Strike, National Labor Relations Act, Labour Candidates And Parties In Canada
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Overview of the wagner model student learning objectives. Describe the nature of early labour relations in canada. Describe the features of the wagner model. Identify the main purpose of the wagner act. Identify the motivating reasons for adopting the model in canada. Labour relations: the system in which employers, workers and their representatives and, directly or indirectly, the government interact to set the ground rules for the governance of work relationships. Juridical: relating to the rules or administration of the law. Replacement worker: a person hired to do the work of someone who is on strike. Scab: derogatory (disrespectful) term for a replacement worker. Picket line: a boundary established by workers on strike at or near the entrance of a workplace that others are asked not to cross. The us has had most violent labour history of any industrialized country (taft and ross, Early 20th century labour relations marked by violent clashes.