LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Blue-Collar Worker, Bargaining Unit

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Between the big industrial and afl craft unions. At start of war, there was a rivalry. The war changes everything - nature of economy and government policy. Ww2 saw the biggest wave of advances within canadas economy in productivity and sophistication. Unlike ww1, government in ww2 had to avoid pro teering and strikes. New kinds of organizing in factories and other places. A lot of organizing done by old craft unions. Communists because loyal to soviet union, wanted to organize and unionize. By the end of the war, unions were in prominent positions in labour movement. The war is supposed to be about defending democracy and why people should have democracy at home. Because the government wouldn"t budge, workers started going on strike because people wanted to create this change. This strike wave happened in the middle of the war and this is how bad people wanted these unions.