Labour Day Warning: If You Want Your Union and Your Rights, You'd Better be Prepared to Fight to Keep Them
Submitted on September 5, 2011
By David J. Climenhaga - September 5, 2011
This Labour Day in Canada, unions and the fundamental right of working people to be represented by them face an existential threat. Elected union leaders seem for the most part not to be prepared for this reality...As in southern Europe and the United States, the people who have in the past decade brought us bank failures, recession and declining economies are massing their not inconsiderable forces to further weaken the union movement in Canada.
