Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-422-1
Year: 1995
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Summary:
Many federal and provincial governments, saying they must reduce deficits, have been creating new legislation to gain concessions from labour unions. This tactic is replacing the traditional approach, which was collective bargaining. The book's editors write that Canada 's progressive system of public sector collective bargaining is under unprecedented attack, in an era in which the state has changed “from being the informal umpire to a party of direct interest with the ultimate power to modify the rules in the middle of the game.”
The volume's 14 contributors, experts and academics from across Canada, explore various aspects of public sector collective bargaining. Early chapters deal with issues that cut across the entire public sector: for example, the development of public sector unions since the 1980s. Three chapters look at the most prominent outputs of public sector bargaining: compensation, strikes and privatization. Two chapters are devoted to the public sector impact of two major changes in the legal environment – the Canadian constitution and employment equity legislation. Seven chapters deal with specific sectors: municipal administration, police and firefighters, education and health, senior levels of government. The final two chapters provide an overview, looking at public sector bargaining from an international perspective, and the future of collective bargaining in Canada.
Editor biographies
Gene Swimmer is Professor of Public Administration at Carleton University. He has published many articles on labour relations in the federal public service and on public sector compensation controls. He has acted as a consultant to many government agencies including the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Ontario Royal Commission on Asbestos, the Affirmative Action Task Force at Supply and Services Canada, and the Ontario Task Force on Overtime.
Mark Thompson is the William M. Hamilton Professor of Industrial Relations in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia. He is widely published in industrial relations journals and has co-edited several volumes. In 1993, he was appointed as a Commissioner to review employment standards in British Columbia, issuing a report in February 1994.
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