Talk:Strike action

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""Canada

On 30 January 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that there is a constitutional right to strike.[17] In this 5-2 majority decision, Justice Rosalie Abella ruled that "[a]long with their right to associate, speak through a bargaining representative of their choice, and bargain collectively with their employer through that representative, the right of employees to strike is vital to protecting the meaningful process of collective bargaining..." [paragraph 24]. This decision adopted the dissent by Chief Justice Brian Dickson in a 1987 Supreme Court ruling on a reference case brought by the province of Alberta. The exact scope of this right to strike remains unclear and will no doubt be subject to further litigation. Prior to this Supreme Court decision the federal and/or provincial governments would introduce "back to work legislation", a special law that blocks the strike action (or a lockout) from happening or continuing on further. Canadian governments would also impose binding arbitration or a new contract on the disputing parties. Back to work legislation was first used in 1950 during a railway strike, and as of 2012 has been used 33 times by the federal government for those parts of the economy that are regulated federally (grain handling, rail and air travel, and the postal service), and in more cases provincially. In addition certain parts of the economy can be proclaimed 'essential services' in which case all strikes are illegal.[18]

Examples include when the government of Canada passed back to work legislation during the 2011 Canada Post lockout and the 2012 CP Rail strike, thus effectively ending the strikes."

This is a well written entry on Strikes (better than than the entry on trade unions.

There is more case law now in Canada that also supports collective bargaining which is the underpinning of the strike action. This case law may be mentioned."

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 * Reference : Alex Bryson & Rafael Gomez & P Willman, 2008. "Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice," CEP Discussion Papers dp0884, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 18:09, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Origin of the term
Eric Hobsbawm said in one of his books to the effect that strikes were invented several times during industrialization, as evidenced by the disparate etymologies in various (European) languages. I have no reference at hand. Kaihsu (talk) 08:18, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

"Films" section - Proposal to add a third category; "Dramatisations".
In the section "Films", the film "Made In Dagenham" appears in both the fiction & non-fiction sections. This film portrays a real event but is not produced from original film material. I don't believe it can be described strictly as either fiction or non-fiction so propose that it is moved to a new section titled "Dramatisations" (British English) or "Dramatizations" (US English).

There may be other films in the "Films" section that also may be better described in this way but I am not familiar with the others mentioned. Mckenzie Weir (talk) 01:09, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

History - Southwest airlines strikes/sick outs/blue flus/meltdowns in October 2021 over mandates and Dec 2022 from missing IT infrastructure
Is the historic weekend cancellation of over 2000 flights over mandates to stay wiped from our history book? Here is Why You Won’t Get an Official Statement About a Southwest ‘Sick Out’ Over Its Vaccine Mandate - Stillness in the Storm. Let's not perpetuate The Official Story of no blue flu (which I just hotlinked). OK? "Due to legal challenges to the vaccine mandate," Southwest gave up on December 20. Must we resort to (hilarious) comedians to even attempt to report on the news? SWAPA Statement on Southwest’s Holiday Meltdown is clear. I cared (talk) 05:02, 7 June 2023 (UTC)


 * what's your point? I'm tempted to delete your cryptic post per WP:NOTFORUM and WP:NOTBLOG but I'll give you a chance to explain yourself. Carguychris (talk) 13:21, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by point? What's your point, exactly?  Do you dispute that I'm seeking to "resolve problems with articles on the relevant" page, to quote from NOTFORUM?  On what basis?   Seems appropriate as can be.  What specifically do you feel is cryptic about or a violation in my post?  Are you familiar with the gist of https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2021/10/here-is-why-you-wont-get-an-official-statement-about-a-southwest-sick-out-over-its-vaccine-mandate/?  Did you look at or read it?   I cared (talk) 20:32, 7 June 2023 (UTC)