HR 2202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Guild, Rand Formula, Industrial Unionism
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Work was de-skilled, so workers could easily be replaced. Control over work passed from workers to factory owners: industrial union: maximizing power by recruiting as many members as possible, regardless of their occupation. Industrial workers of the world (wobblies) was an international labor union (1905). It opposed the american federal of labor"s refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions: describe rand formula (deduction of dues contract) In 1944, the federal government passed pc 1003, modeled on the us wagner act. Pc1003 established rights and obligations fundamental to labor relations in canada. Pc1003 included compulsory collective bargaining and the right of employee representatives" to be certified as bargaining agents if they could demonstrate sufficient support. Contract law: employees have a legal relationship to their employers based on contract law: sometimes also referred to as a personal services contract"; such contracts may be written (explicit) or verbal (implied) between the partiers;
