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| Some of the ways in which labor becomes political |
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Workers go beyond economic demands to focus on broader issues that affect them
Workers go beyond sectional interests by expressing solidarity with and engaging in coordinated activities with other workers in the same workplace or section, or with other workers in different sectors |
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| The strategy of voting for the existing or the dominant parties in order to win concessions for workers. |
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1946- Justice Ivan Rand brought an arbitrated end to the ford strike in Windsor by ruling in favour of mandatory union recognition and automatic due check offs.
1948- the federal government followed establishing similar legislation with the industrial relations and disputes investigation act.
Legal restrictions;
Strikes are illegal during the time of collective bargaining. There
are also restrictions on picketing, secondary boycotts, and
sympathy strikes. |
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Attempts to disorganize their identities as workers and to reorganize them according to other identities.
Might include; national, religious or racial identities. |
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Liberalism argued that workers and capitalists had common cause against the feudal nobility. By overcoming landed wealth and hereditary power, the unfettered market economy would ensure equal opportunity.
Liberal political parties have been keeping an eye on their left flank and granting concessions to workers’ demands when more worker oriented political parties are being formed or are succeeding electorally. |
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It is not critical of capitalism as such, only a corrupt or excessive capitalism. It is often a form of left- liberalism. It argues for the greatest equality of opportunity possible within capitalism.
Argues for independent labourist candidates and parties, either to stand alone in elections or to form temporary alliances with other parties willing to adopt workers’ demands.
Therefore, it is sometimes pulled to its right to form alliances with liberals, conversely to the socialists on their left. |
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| The attempt to elect workers to represent the interests of workers had some success at local levels before WW1. Nevertheless, this success often did not last long. |
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Attracted industrial workers- the most prominent group is the industrial workers of the world.
Winnipeg general strike- as well as supportive general strikes across the country. |
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| • ‘impossiblism’- this is the idea that, because it is impossible to adequately reform capitalism to the benefit of the workers, it must be rapidly overthrown by a worker led insurrection |
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• it left the more craft based trades and labour congress to organize an industrial union, the workers unity league. But then, at the behest of Moscow, it abruptly dissolved the latter and rejoined the former.
• Organized the on to Ottawa trek in which 1,000 unemployed workers boarded boxcars to bring directly to the federal government their protests against the working conditions in federal relief camps. |
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| canadian social democracy |
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It combined a number of political tendencies;
-The parliamentary socialism of social democracy
-The social gospel which reconciled calls for social justice with radical
-Protestantism
-Fabian socialism emphasizing state control of the economy and central planning by experts. |
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Tends to focus on sectional, narrowly economic demands. These unions tend to be hierarchical, non-participatory, ‘service unions’- this has become the domination model of unionism.
It seeks to align with non-union organizations struggling for broader political issues that go beyond the narrowly economic interests of the members of the social union. |
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| Committed to militancy and solidarity among unions and between unions and other social justice organizations in a struggle for progressive social change that involves extra- parliamentary actions. Supporters of social movement unionism believes that unions should be run by active memberships and see democracy as a key to building workers power |
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| new social movements/ how they engaged in two types of reductionism (marxist theory) |
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First it engaged in economic reductionism by regarding production as the most important space for social change.
Second, it engaged in class reductionism by regarding class inequality as the most significant form of inequality and by regarding the working class as the most important agent of social change. |
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Defining characteristic of social movement unionism is that it insists on more democratic participatory approaches by union members and allied movements.
Notes how their repudiation of the hierarchy and leadership structures typical of political parties often leads to the emergence of informal leaders within women’s movements. And because, there are no formal rules or procedures regarding leaders in many of these organizations- the informal leaders are often unaccountable. |
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Its most important aspects are extra parliamentary mass mobilization, the organizing and representation of politically excluded social groups, and highly structured organizations and ideologies.
Even the most elitist, ruling class parties needed to adopt certain aspects of the mass party in order to compete with them. |
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| These parties are based more on professional functionaries rather than party members and volunteers. Furthermore, they loosen the rigidity of their ideologies and policies in order to appeal to an electorate that is broader than their original constituencies, such as a class or religious constituency. |
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| These parties focus less on participation in, and appeal to, broad groups in civil society, and focus more on long-term relationships with special interest groups. There is also a greater fusion of parties and government because they use the powers of incumbency to change legal rules to make it difficult for new parties to emerge. |
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When the NDP formed in 1961, it not only consolidated its connections with the organized labour movement. It also began appealing to the voters of the liberal party. catch all party
Reduced the extent of member participation, centralized leadership and shifted toeard the center politically. The long term trajectory of the NDP corresponds to that of political parties in general. |
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A vote for a party that is not the preferred one, motivated by the intention to affect the outcome of the election
In case of unions, strategic voting campaigns are used to prevent vote splitting among non-conservative parties |
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A crucial feature of organization in modern society is the source of their funding/resources
When organizations get most of their funding from external sources, they are dependent on these external sources
An organization based on internal funding, on membership dues= is more independent
The national action committee on the status of women (NAC), the most important recent women’s movement organization in Canada, was in large part state funded |
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Immigrant workers centre in Montreal, Quebec
Community based worker’s organization
It provides a protected space outside of the workplace where migrant workers can discuss their challenges and issues
The IWC is critical of unions that, once they organize and unionize new members, stop educating and organizing these members
The IWC not only provides counseling and caseworkers. It also attempts deeper organizing including;
Popular education about the history of the labour movement- the labour standards act and collective organizing processes
Political campaigns around issues like the wrongful dismissal of migrant workers |
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| impact benefit agreement (IBA) |
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Confidential contracts between corporations and aboriginal communities
When corporations want to develop projects on aboriginal lands, aboriginal communities use IBAs to win guarantees from these corporations |
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| THE UNITED STEELWORKERS AND ABORIGINAL MOVEMENT |
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One way they have done so is by harmonizing collective agreements and IBAs
As part of this strategy, the USW argues that the union and its collective agreements can
Strengths the language around IBAs
Help enforce the IBAs if the corporation doesn’t respect them |
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| nationalism- quebec labour movement |
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| In the 1960s-70s increasing the autonomy of the Quebec government from the Canadian government, as well as the distinctiveness of Quebec culture from north American culture, coincided with demands for a larger welfare state and greater protections for workers. |
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| corporatism- quebec labour movement |
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Major government policies occur through ‘tripartite’ negotiations between recognized representatives of the government, the capitalist class, and the working class
The representatives of the working class are often the major labour federations and the labour parties. Since there is no consistent labour party in Quebec, the labour federations are the representatives of workers. |
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On may 22, 2012 after law 12 was passed a protest featuring tens of thousands of marchers occurred. There were more than 1,000 arrests. Some describe it as the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
The liberals lost the Quebec election in 2012 and the tuition fee increase was blocked |
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