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Right To Strike: A Comparison Of Canadian And Chinese Law, Tianjiao Yu
Right To Strike: A Comparison Of Canadian And Chinese Law, Tianjiao Yu
LLM Theses
The socialist market economy was written into the Chinese Constitution in 1993. From then on, the Ministry of Labour stopped officially denying the existence of strikes in China. For the past several years, there have been numerous reports of labour unrest. However, there is in no law regulating strikes. Strikes are prohibited in China. This thesis is designed to conduct a comparison of Canadian and Chinese law respecting the right to strike. Chapter I is devoted to analysis of the right to strike under Canadian law in two aspects. The first aspect is the question of whether there is a …
The Evolving Duties Of Trade Unions Toward Their Members: Defining The Duties And Determining The Standards, B. Richard Bell
The Evolving Duties Of Trade Unions Toward Their Members: Defining The Duties And Determining The Standards, B. Richard Bell
LLM Theses
This thesis examines the continuing development of a union's duty to fairly represent its members, the duty owed by a union to its members based upon negligence principles and the recent development of the duty to accommodate in the field of human rights legislation. As the federal government and seven of the ten Canadian provinces moved to codify the union duty of fair representation the lower courts saw a continuing need for judicial supervision in the area of intra-union conflict. However, the Supreme Court of Canada appears to have willingly accepted ouster of the courts' inherent jurisdiction in favour of …
"The Boys'll Listen To Me": The Labor Career Of William Blizzard, Shae Ronald Davidson
"The Boys'll Listen To Me": The Labor Career Of William Blizzard, Shae Ronald Davidson
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
In the Fall of 1892, Timothy and Sarah Blizzard gave birth to a son. Timothy and Sarah began their family during a transitional period in West Virginia’s history. The couple started their lives as farmers. However, the potential income from West Virginia’s coal industry encouraged them to abandon this lifestyle and to plunge into the new industrial economy. Timothy became a miner, while Sarah took on the role of a mother living in a company town. Both became involved in the earliest organization drives of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), whose efforts to organize the state had started only …