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A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining
By David Doorey, York University [This post was originally published on Harvard Law School’s OnLabor blog as an instalment in Prof. Doorey’s ongoing series looking at comparative law issues in …
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Why It’s So Hard to Unionize Starbucks in Canada
Written by David Doorey, York University Years ago, in 2014 I think, I did a public lecture and I gave it a controversial title: “Why Unions Can’t Help Baristas”. In …
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Trevor Bauer Suspension: Professional Sport as a Lens for Studying Labour-Management Relations
Written by Brad Walchuk, Staff Rep, CUPE, Local 3906 and Adjunct Professor, Brock University The study of labour relations in professional sports is an effective lens into the broader study …
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How Canadian Unions Responded to Vaccine Mandates, Protests, and Blockades
[This post is a re-posting of a blog entry originally published on Harvard Law School’s OnLabor blog on March 8, 2022] By David Doorey & Rawan Abdelbaki, York University Not …
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Will There Be a Strike at York?
Written by David Doorey, York University It may be flying under the media radar, but full-time professors at York University will be in a legal strike position and York will …