LABR 1F99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Service Employees International Union, Industrial Revolution, Winnipeg General Strike
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The labour movement: a vehicle for poliical and social change. High demand for labour, families migrated to newly industrialized ciies. Around the turn of the century, federal and provincial government passed legislaion that set a=labour standards to prevent employers from exploiing workers. Labour unions represent cdn workers in their negoiaions with employers (collecive bargaining) The united way help support workers who were unemployed/impoverished. The average unionized worker earns . 97 an hour more than non-union worker in. The average woman warned . 65/hours than non-union counterpart. Raise minimum wage from 12. 50 to 16/hour for psws. Declining voing is the result of a democraic deicit.