LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, Parental Leave

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F90
• Professor: Leslie Nichols

Document Summary

(cid:883)(cid:524) unions are protectors of the (cid:498)special interests(cid:499) of their own members, which are in conflict with other social interests. 2) enlightened leaders realized on their own that it was good and right to improve the economic and social conditions of the most oppressed. While the interests that unions defend come into conflict with those of others from time to time, the labour movement has always had the betterment of society for the vast majority at the core of its priorities. The idea that (cid:498)enlightened(cid:499) elites make political and social change denies those elites" sustained opposition to workers" rights and ignores the difficult and heroic struggles that. One of the labour movement"s earliest achievements in canada was to force governments the labour movement waged to force such power holders to change. Employment standards to regulate working conditions in the growing industrial economy.