Monday, November 30, 2009

Canadian card check scholarship

We have followed other comments on the effect of card check legislation in Canada and its relevance to analysis of the issue in the United States. Previous posts are here and here. Now there is something with a lot of substance to review. More after the jump.
The latest edition of Just Labour, a research publication sponsored by Canada's York University's Center for Research on Work and Society, is devoted to the Canadian experience with both card check recognition and mandatory elections to determine representation. There is a lot to digest here, and it has a decidedly pro-labor tilt, but brings to the debate substantial comparative data that challenges assumptions previously made by EFCA opponents. Digesting the writings was on the Thanksgiving holiday agenda, but tryptophan got in the way. More soon.