LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thai Baht

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F90
• Professor: Larry Savage

Document Summary

Historically, the canadian labour movement has played a key role in struggles for political and social progress: The creation of the welfare state and redistributive public policies. Promotion of social justice and equality for both working-class people and members of other oppressed groups. Goal: to influence the legislative agenda by changing legislators or their minds. Context: what unions win at the bargaining table, they risk losing at the ballot box. Some workers historically reluctant to engage in partisan politics. The new democratic party (ndp) is the party most closely identified with unions in canada. Some unions promote strategic voting for liberals in areas where the ndp is not competitive in order to prevent the election of conservatives. In quebec, organized labour is most closely aligned with separatist parties, although no formal links exist. Founded in 1961 as a social democratic labour party through a partnership between the socialist cooperative.