Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions

http://calm.ca/article/2015/tracking-harper%E2%80%99s-9-year-long-assault-unions
Date Written:  2015-09-03
Publisher:  Canadian Association of Labour Media
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17820

Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.

Subject Headings

• Abuse of Power
• Anti-Labour
• Collective Bargaining
• Collective Bargaining/Federal Jurisdiction
• Crown Corporations/Federal
• Employment Insurance
• Labour Issues
• Labour Law
• Labour Unions
• Migrants
• Public Service
• Temporary Work/Workers
• Unemployment Insurance
• Union-busting