LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canada Labour Code, Bargaining Unit, The Employer

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 529
• Professor: Peter Wilson

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Law 529 lecture 8 (chapters 36, 39-40) The common law has not been favourable to workers organizing to advance their conditions of employment. Freedom of contract is a basic tenet of the common law. It established a labour relations regime roughly comparable to what we have today: ref. This order was translated into legislation (federal and provincial) after the war: e. g. , canada labour code, ontario labour relations act, the right to unionize was extended to the public sector between 1965 and 1973; In general, public sector unionization is governed by separate statutes. Labour legislation provides a self-contained set of rules and processes governing the organization of unionized workplaces, negotiation and administration of collective agreements, and the resort of unionized workers and employers to industrial action (strikes and lockouts): ref. Table 36. 2: workers covered by collective agreement, ref. Tables 36. 3 and 36. 4: most recent developments, collective bargaining is recognized as a charter-protected right.