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Reconcilable differences: new directions in Canadian labour law

Reconcilable differences: new directions in Canadian labour law

Reconcilable differences: new directions in Canadian labour law

Law of America > Law of Canada > Federal law. Common and collective provincial law Individual provinces and territories > Social law and legislation > Labor law > KE3109

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Online version: Weiler, Paul C. Reconcilable differences. Toronto: Carswell Co., 1980 (OCoLC)758678294

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XI, 335 pages ; 24 cm

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Useful for students learning an area of law, Reconcilable differences: new directions in Canadian labour law is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Main Contents

Prologue : Making labour law in British Columbia
1. Introduction
2. The industrial relations system
3. The politics of labour law reform
4. Social credit and the labour code
5. Labour policy and Canadian federalism
6. The plan of the book
Chapter 1 : Free collective bargaining by Canadian workers
1. The banks meet the unions
2. The industrial relations setting
3. The values of collective bargaining through trade unions
4. The role of the law
5. Membership cards v. representation ballots
6. First-contract arbitration
7. Looking back
Chapter 2 : Industrial conflict in Canada
1. The national day of protest
2. The dimensions of industrial conflict in Canada
3. The logic of the strike in free collective bargaining
4. The role of the law
5. Strike votes
6. Strike replacements
7. Secondary picketing
8. Conclusion
Chapter 3 : The labour arbitrator and the labour agreement
1. Entering the brave new world of labour arbitration
2. The values of labour arbitration
3. The struggle for the soul of arbitration
4. An affirmative theory of the arbitrator's role
5. The practical challenge to the arbitration process
6. The labour board alternative
7. Should we have a labour court?
Chapter 4 : The individual employee and the trade union
1. The tottle tale
2. The union as the exclusive bargaining agent
3. The limits of democracy and the duty of fair representation
4. Fair representation and contract negotiations
5. Fair representation in contract administration
6. Union security and the right to work
Chapter 5 : The structure of collective bargaining
1. Labour unrest in Canadian skies
2. The legal source of fragmentation
3. The practical consequences of fragmentation
4. What can the law do?
5. Accreditation of employers
6. Councils of trade unions
7. The VIrtues of consolidation
8. The ambiguities of centralization
9. Conclusion
Chapter 6 : Labour relations in building construction
1. The hardy boys
2. The industrial relations system in construction
3. The legal image of construction indstrial relations
4. Union organization of the construction worker
5. The problem of bargaining structure
6. The evolution of bargaining structure in B.C. construction
7. Small(er) is beautiful?
8. Conclusion
Chapter 7 : Making a VIrtue out of necessity: strikes by essential public employees
1. Strike at the Vancouver General Hospital
2. Collective bargaining with governments: a rationale
3. Resolving bargaining disputes in public employment
4. The problem of public employee strikes
5. Compulsory arbitration
6. The impact of arbitration upon negotiations
7. Final-offer arbitration
8. The controlled strike
9. How essential is the public welfare?
10. The endless essential service strike
11. The politics of essential service disputes
12. Conclusion
Chapter 8 : Collective bargaining under wage controls
1. When worlds collide
2. Unions and controls
3. Inflation and controls
4. The Canadian experience
5. Wage controls and industrial relations
6. Wage guidelines or wage stabilization
7. Wage controls and labour peace
8. Controls” a brief appraisal
9. Afterword: public-sector bargaining and wage inflation
Chapter 9 : Concluding observations: collective bargaining, legal administration, and the codetermination alternative
1. Introduction
2. The judicial approach to labour disputes
3. The new B.C. labour relations board
4. The uses and limits of the administrative model
5. The codetermination alternative
6. Conclusion
References
Index.

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