HRM 3422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Final Offer, National Labor Relations Act, Canadian Union Of Public Employees

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3422
• Professor: David Doorey

Document Summary

Labor relations and collective bargaining in the public sector p. 205-213. Most canadian public sector workers didn"t acquire the right to join unions until after the passage of the public service staff. Relations act in 1967, 23 yrs after private sector workers acquired that right through pc 1003: bc union density rates are higher in the public than in the private compensation. Who is a public sector worker: includes federal and provincial civil services, municipalities, healthcare and edu. The development of public sector unionism: why public sector unionism developed slowly. Public sector emerged full-blown in a very compressed time span. In 1960, aside from some outside municipal workers, public schoolteachers and those in the province of saskatchewan, very few public sector workers had joined unions: the early years: public ee associations. They sought to avoid confrontation with ers, had no compulsory membership requirements, did not affiliate with labor federation and included management personnel up to the most senior levels.