LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Collective Bargaining, Stelco, Golden Horseshoe

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Immigration rates effect things like property value, and the construction sector. Luck: canada had bad luck with free trade agreement before 1990 recession, 12. 5% unemployment rate in large cities: canada benefitted in the recovery later, not currency, but deficit panic. Canada"s factories have to compete with others around the world. Only in 21st century do we get truly globalized competition. Businesses view labour and wages as an expense. Control as big of question as expense (being able to control their workers), no unions or resistance. Environmental regulation: some places refuse to have regulations. Substance: governments giving money/building roads for a new factory in order to attract workers. Garment industry: leading area for when countries start industrial activity, easy to move, garments are an essential, cheap labour/sweatshops, major employer, big part of unionization, old factories get turned into townhouses, loss of garment industry in north.

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