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Is Memorial University Illegally Preventing Workers from Joining Picket Lines?
Written by David Doorey, York University You may have heard that more than 800 professors at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador are on strike. The strikers have set up …
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What Might a Right to Strike for Non-Union Workers in Canada Look Like?
By David Doorey, York University Workers at some 100 Starbucks stores in the United States today began a 3-day strike. This follows upon other mass strikes across the U.S. in …
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Lessons for the Railway Showdown from a Victory in Canada
Written by David Doorey, York University. This post was originally published on Harvard Law School’s OnLabor blog as part of my ongoing series on comparative Canada-USA labor and employment law. …
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Court Strikes Down Ontario’s Punitive Public Sector Wage Freeze Law
Another week, another loss for the Doug Ford Conservatives and their ongoing attack on pubic sector workers. In a decision released this afternoon, the Superior Court of Justice ruled that …
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New Video: Standing Up to the Notwithstanding Clause
By David Doorey, York University During my coverage of the recent battle between CUPE education workers and the Ontario Conservative government, there was a lot of interest in a video …