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The CCLA Ottawa (17 June 2011) - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has written to the Minister of Labour urging her to reconsider the proposal to introduce legislation that would force striking workers at Canada Post (and previously Air Canada, before a settlement was reached on June 16) back-to-work.
Freedom of association is a fundamental free collective bargaining.
The CCLA is concerned that this kind of intervention by government in labour disputes, particularly at such an early stage, will discourage individuals from exercising their associational rights.
"Moreover intervention of this kind, particularly at this very early stage, risks sending a message to management in these disputes and in other sectors that negotiations with unions is not necessary, since the government will simply intervene to force employees back to work," writes CCLA General Counsel Nathalie Des Rosiers and Cara Faith Zwibel, director, Fundamental Freedoms Program.
Read the CCLA’s letter to the Minister of Labour here.
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