LABR 3P13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bargaining Unit, Winnipeg General Strike, Rand Formula
17 Sep 2016
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Exclusion of first nations to todays attempts at inclusion. Unions roles within first nations societies (hiring of these people) Ex/ unifor and casino rama, achieving first collective agreement. Very discriminator and anti-asian in late 1800-first world war within labour movement. Labour movement pushed for these discriminatory acts for own economic protection/interest. These people seen as unsavory and unwelcome to canada. Right of women, particularly married women, to be in labour market and what kind of work they can do. Should unions push them out of labour market or try to organize them. Different labour movement in quebec than rest of canada. 4 major wages in working class activism/resistance: 1870s-80s, end of world war 1, during and after world war 2, 1965-1975. Advance rights and protect craft and not see craft deskilled. Before this, workers often worked 10-12 hours 6 days a week. More time for family, leisure, civic participation, etc. Up to this time trade union were illegal.
