Labour Left Out: Canada's Failure to Protect And Promote Collective Bargaining As a Human Right

by Roy J. Adams

Canadian Government officials attending meetings of the International Labor Organization (ILO) have solemnly promised to protect and promote free collective bargaining as a basic right to be exercised by all Canadian Workers. Instead of keeping this pledge, they have repeatedly broken it. Hundreds of thousand of workers are being denied the power to bargain jointly with their employers. Many thousands more, although ostensibly given that right , have frequently had it stripped away from them by governments all across Canada. These violations - wage freezes, strike breaking, arbitrary imposition of contract settlements - have been strongly condemned by the ILO's Committee on Freedom of Association, which has found Canada to b among the world's foremost violators of basic ILO principles. In this hard hitting book, Roy J. Adams, reports on his research into Canada's failure to protect and promote collective bargaining - including the results of his correspondence with the federal, provincial, and territorial labour ministries.

152 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006