LABOUR RELATIONS(Canada vs.

International)SMILY PATHAK N01146215 LIDIA KOKOREVA N01148025ALI HAMZA ABBAS N01139292

RAZAL NAZAR N01148419YASH BHATT N01147661JASEEM KOORITHODY N01149813

*Suffield, L. (2008). Labour relations (2nd ed.). Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

What Is Labor Relations?“All aspects of the union-management relationship, incl. the establishment of union bargaining rights, the negotiation process, and the administration of a collective agreement”

What Does The Topic Mean?

Labour relations vary from country to country.

Canada vs. other countries

Labor relations comparison in Canada and the USA Labor relations comparison in Canada and China Labor relations comparison in Canada and India

Why these countries for comparison?

CanadaFacts about Labor Relations in Canada• High incidence of Strikes, Violence and

Illegality as compared to other countries• Nine out of ten labor laws are provincially

regulated• 90% employees are covered under provincial

labor laws; remainder under federal law• Alberta has strongest labor standards in

CanadaStuart M. Jamieson, Times of Trouble (2014) and Industrial Relations in Canada (2014) retrieved from. http://www.canadianlabourrelations.com/canadian-labour-laws.html

Factors Affecting labor Relations in Canada

• Inadequate and lack of training among unions• Poor attitude • Poor handling of dispute settlement process• Undemocratic styles of leadership

Audra Bianca, Muhia & Fredrick (James 2009) Retreived from: http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/factors-affecting-industrial-relations-1407.html

Canada

Canada vs. U.S. of America

USA• decentralised system

of labour relations laws for both public and private

• 90% workforce regulated by provincial government (10% by federal government)

• Need justification to terminate a employee

• Accommodate disabled employee to the point of undue hardship

• centralised system of private sector labour relations laws

• No national labor relations board to regulate unionized workforce

• Employee terminated “at will” by employer

• Prohibition on employing disabled employee unless it meets BFOR

Thomas Reuters, Published on (April 20, 2009) , Canadian HR reporter The national journal of human resource management, Journal 7, pg 12; retrieved from www.hrreporetr.com

Canada vs. China

Success of labor relations development in Canada?”Improvements have become luxuries that organizations can no longer afford to provide”

A country with cheaper workforce

*Secord, H., & Mackintosh, S. (2014). Canadian labour reporter special report: Out of the mist : Understanding canadian labour relations strategy. Toronto, Ontario: Carswell.

*Zhang, L. (2015). Inside china's automobile factories: The politics of labor and worker resistance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

What are the companies that moved their manufacture to China?

Reduced job security Low wages Lack of opportunities

Prioritization of profitability Leaner & meaner factory regime Aggressive cost-cutting measures

International companies:

Historical development Lack of labor unions

Era of labor activism

Q and A1. What kinds of situations does the Concept describe? Is this a broad or narrow group of observable phenomena?

2. How can the Concept be used to predict something that has not yet been observed. If it cannot be used that way, why not?

3. Can the Concept fail? If it can, what might be an example of such a failure, if it cannot, why not?

Success of the Concept: a case incident of Petro-Canada

• The communications, Energy and paper workers union represents more than 90 percent of its unionized employees.

• 1984;Established a formal labor union policy.• 1994;company and union signed a relationship objectives agreement.• Both parties used mutual gains bargaining and worked together to

develop policies outside of the collective agreement. • Together with the union, the company has adopted innovative policies

including pay for knowledge and work teams. This helped the company to meet the market fluctuations and competition from rivals.

Failure of the concept: a case incident of college strike in Ontario• In 2005 ,negotiations held between OPSEU and college managements to renew the

workload agreement, which is a part of College Collective Bargaining Act.• The staff union called for strike as the negotiations were unsuccessful.• The last attempt to reach an agreement in March 6,2006 was failed and put 150000

full time and 170000 part time students out of classes.• Students expressed concerns over losing an academic year.• The managements stated that they would teach classes if necessary.• On, March 22 the union proposed that the parties agree to submit their dispute to

arbitration.• Employees were awarded a 15.3 wage increase yet the issue of workload referred to

a task force for study and resolution on a later date.

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