Section 107 of Canada's Labour Code has been used eight times since June of 2024 to interfere with bargaining or to end strikes.

The full text of section 107 says that the federal minister responsible for labour may “do such things as to the Minister seem likely to maintain or secure industrial peace and to promote conditions favourable to the settlement of industrial disputes or differences and to those ends the Minister may refer any question to the Board or direct the Board to do such things as the Minister deems necessary.”

Since June 2024, section 107 has been invoked eight times to interfere with bargaining or end strikes, including those by postal workers, flight attendants and railway workers.

“When big corporations complain, the government caves,” Gazan said while tabling the bill on Monday. “This is a direct violation of workers’ rights, the right to strike and the right to free collective bargaining. These rights were won through generations of struggle and sacrifice, yet government after government violates the rights of workers whenever it is politically convenient.”

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
      31·
      2 days ago

      Keep licking employer boot. I’m sure they will reward your loyalty. Maybe one day you’ll get to hold the whip too

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      2 days ago

      Unions have pretty limited purview, so I’m not sure I could ever describe them as “corrupt with power”. At worst they become stuck in the old way of doing things, which this seems like an example of.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          4·
          3 days ago

          In practice, very little. People who are in unions tend to be a lot of other things first. Historically unions have endorsed the NDP, but the NDP never got close to actual federal power.

          They can stop work. That’s close to the only thing they can do, and they usually don’t want to.

            • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
              2·
              2 days ago

              by their own actions, they prove that mail is not essential as it is not as important as their money/ benefits package.

              that was a LOT of power and they seriously damaged the canadian economy right before things went from bad to even worse.

              Keep going, you are almost there.

    • moody@lemmings.world
      16·
      3 days ago

      Before calling Canada Post’s union corrupt, have you ever looked at what their demands are? Because pretty much everything they’re asking for is super reasonable, and Canada Post refuses to budge because they know that they’re considered an essential service and the government will eventually step in to force a return to work. They’ve gotten no concessions in last year’s strike or since then.

      Never mind the fact that Canada Post is a service by definition and shouldn’t be driven by profits.

    • patatas@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      3 days ago

      Don’t you love it when people just say stuff, like completely made up stuff that is the opposite of how things work in reality

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          7·
          3 days ago

          So are you one of those people that want no taxes or government? Like, sure, mail delivery isn’t a human right, but neither are things we all agree someone should care for, like a transportation network of any kind.

              • patatas@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                3 days ago

                Besides, it would be simple enough to just mandate that ‘last-mile’ delivery is the exclusive right of Canada Post, which would have the effect of:

                • not letting companies pick and choose the profitable routes while handing off deliveries that are money-losing to CanPost;
                • guaranteeing good wages, benefits, and working conditions for all delivery workers.
                • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
                  3·
                  3 days ago

                  I’m not sure I’d call full nationalisation of an industry “simple”, especially when it steps on American toes that much. But I guess yes, it is an option.

                  • patatas@sh.itjust.works
                    2·
                    3 days ago

                    Sure, maybe not ‘simple’, but it wouldn’t be nationalising the entire shipping industry either - just the final leg of delivery