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Canada’s ruling class exploits “anti-scab” legislation hailed by union bureaucracy to break strikes
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World Socialist Web Site (en)
After the first ruling against them, management cynically wrote that it had fully complied with the CIRB ruling.
“The bank contends that it adhered to the Canada Labour Code and to the previous ruling by the CIRB, despite still not having been provided the reasons behind the prior decision,” it stated.
Beginning a day after the workers walked out, strikers began filming instances of scab contractors illegally performing their work, in flagrant violation of the recent amendments to the Canada Labour Code.
To pre-empt growing worker push-back on the anti-worker Canada Labour Code, and to fill in any legal hurdles brought about by dubious use of the code, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Carney has convened an initiative to “update” the Canada Labour Code.
The proposals currently on the table in Carney’s labour code review are nothing less than an all-out assault on worker rights.