LABRST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Industrial Unionism, Strike Action, American Exceptionalism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 2A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Law in general seemed to be hostile on rights to bargain. Individual rights are the rights of the individual. Collective rights are the rights of the group. And are generally not protected or covered by rights laws. Historically canada worked in a civil liberties kind of tradition. Part of the british tradition -- not specific laws to protect human rights. Compared themselves to the states with their bill of rights -- just because they had a "(cid:271)ill of rights" does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) the dis(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374) i(cid:374) the us reduced. Leave these issues to the free market -- judges should(cid:374)"t i(cid:374)ter(cid:448)e(cid:374)e (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess owners know better. Hostile to unions -- unions were on their own. Courts tended not to be allies of unions at all. Injunctions -- getting a court order against the unions was a quick way to end strikes, picketing etc. Business serve the bigger community -- providing services to the community.