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U of T Conference on Right to Strike

by David Doorey December 3, 2009
written by David Doorey December 3, 2009

Brian Langille at U of Toronto law school has organized a very interesting labour law seminar for this weekend with leading  scholars from Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Africa, including Sir Bob Hepple, Keith Ewing, Harry Arthurs, and James Pope, among other distinguished scholars.    The subject matter is: Is there a Constitutional Right to Strike in Canada?  
Because space is limited, it is by invitation only, so don’t just show up!  However, the papers from the conference will be published in a special volume of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal next year.  Some of the papers are already posted.  Here is the line up.
The topic is a live one now in light of the Supreme Court’s recent project of reworking the scope of freedom of association in the Charter.  The Court ruled in the 1980s that freedom of association does not include a right to strike or right to collective bargaining.  However, a couple of years ago, in B.C. Health Services, the Court changed its mind about the right to collective bargaining, and said it was wrong in the earlier decisions.  It also ruled that ‘freedom of association’ in the Charter should provide at least as much protection as that required by ILO Conventions that Canada has ratified.  Canada has ratified Convention 87, which the ILO expert bodies have found includes an expansive right to strike.  (See my post from earlier this week).  This is a topic I have discussed before, when York was on strike.
I look forward to the papers coming out of this conference.

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Professor Doorey is an Associate Professor of Work Law and Industrial Relations at York University. He is Academic Director of Osgoode Hall Law School’s executive LLM Program in Labour and Employment Law and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. Professor Doorey is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., Ph.D), London School of Economics (LLM Labour Law), and the University of Toronto (B.A., M.I.R.).

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Given how ineffective labor laws are in the USA, seems like a giant waste of money.

Just send Jen from HR down to tell all the employees they’ll be fired for unionizing. Poof. Organizing campaign over. Wait for the poultry damages to be ordered years later.

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Waiting for an @NHL player to refuse to wear corporate logos. Want to hear the @NHL announce that players have no personal choice when it comes to corporate logos.

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