Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

by Charles W. Smith and Larry Savage

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike. Unions in Court documents the evolution of the Canadian labour movement's engagement with the Charter, demonstrating how and why labour's long-standing distrust of the legal system has given way to a controversial, Charter-based legal strategy. This book's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774835397
• ISBN13: 9780774835398
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 280 Pages