Can Worker Voice Strike Back? Law and the Decline and Uncertain Future of Strikes

The Right to Strike: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Arc of Workplace Justice

“…109 In Workers: Worlds of Labour, the historian Eric Hobsbawm claimed that human rights are the natural language of groups who are excluded and oppressed. 110 They are moral aspirations that inspire protest movements, and the goal is to change the social consensus so that labour rights become political agreements that are legally enforceable.…”

The Toronto Airport Workers’ Council: Renewing Workplace Organizing and Socialist Labor Education

“…The neoliberal transition to increasingly coercive labor relations is also true in Canada. Government intervention has dramatically increased through wage-restraint legislation, the threat and use of back-to-work legislation, broadened definitions of essential services, and imposed extensions of collective agreements (Panitch and Swartz 2009; Tucker 2012). All three of Canada’s main political parties have imposed back-to-work legislation at the national or provincial levels, including the social democratic New Democratic Party (NDP) (Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights n.d.…”

The Way Forward for Social Europe: How Do We Get There from Here?

“…However, collective bargaining coverage is shrinking and collective action in the form of strikes in the advanced economies, unlike China for example, is increasingly rare. The industrial relations specialists included in the collection paint a dire picture of the capacity of trade unions in contemporary Europe. Wright and Brown's chapter begins with the bold assertion: ‘the economic foundation upon which collective bargaining was built has been crumbling’ (427).…”