What caused the change in how unions were treated by the law in
terms of rights of recognition?
The
major impetus for change came from laws the United States passed
that were to some extent adopted by the Canadian federal government
in wartime emergency legislation. Prior to this, an Act had been
passed in Quebec that was later adopted by five other provinces.
The Collective Labour Agreement Extension Act of 1934 allowed
the Quebec provincial government to extend the terms of a collective
agreement concerning wages and hours to an entire industry while
the agreement was in force.
Alberta,
Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick also adopted
the Act.
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