“We need the CCPA to remind us that our dreams of a decent, egalitarian society are reasonable — indeed that with a little work, they are practical. And I love that practicality, that protection of the dream of the possible.”
— Naomi Klein
Issue(s): Employment and labour, Human rights
Projects & Initiatives: Labour Matters
March 8, 2006
Price: $14.95
About this Publication
In Labour Left Out, Roy Adams reports on his research into the failure of Canadian governments to protect and promote the collective bargaining rights of both unionized and non-unionized workers in this country.
Far from honouring their solemn commitments to the UN’s International Labour Organization, our governments have blatantly and repeatedly violated them. Their many strike-breaking actions and arbitrarily imposed contract settlements have been condemned by the ILO, which has cited Canada as one of the world’s worst violators of basic labour rights.
In exposing the appalling anti-labour record of our federal and provincial governments, Prof. Adams includes his exchange of correspondence with Canada’s labour ministries on their dismal labour-law policies.