MHR 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canada Labour Code, Middle Ages, National Labor Relations Act
15 Dec 2016
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The common law has not been favourable to workers organizing to advance their conditions of employment. Efforts by workers to organize can be detected as early as the middle ages: petition to parliament, some examples of strike activity. Efforts to organize labour in canada were detected in the latter part of the. Employees of the north west company went on strike for higher wages in. There were three distinct eras in the development of canadian labour law: first era: repression of workers organizations and collective bargaining. 18th and 19th century common law deemed labour organizations to be illegal under the doctrine of criminal conspiracy. England combination act 1799 outlawed two or more workers combining to increase their wages, lessen their hours of work, or persuade anyone to leave or refuse to work. The revised combination act 1825 made it legal for workers to strike: second era: tolerance of workers organizations and collective bargaining.
