With Canada Post and other labour disputes in the news — alongside increasing unemployment and wage compression — unions in Canada are in an expansionary mode.
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Near the beginning of my 26 years writing for the Post, I told readers that, in my next column, I would explain how to legally decertify unions. The mere suggestion led to a series of threatened lawsuits from organized labour, none of which came to fruition.
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Since those days, private sector unions have been battered and are less pugilistic, more consigned to their lot than in those headier days.
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But from an employee standpoint, is unionization a good idea? Here’s a side-by-side comparison of union and non-union private sector employment:
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When I write columns about employees obtaining anywhere from three to 30 months’ pay when they are fired, I am speaking only to the non-union sector. Unionized employees are only entitled to the minimums in the Employment Standard Acts — which, in many provinces, is no more than eight weeks, however long they have been employed.
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