Changing strategic capacities: Union amalgamations in Canada and Australia

Over the last 15 years, capital has become more mobile and competition has intensified. Governments have reduced their size and role in regulating the economy. For workers, the result has been job loss, declining real wages, and a change in the nature of work and those who are employed. Organized labour has been displaced from the privileged economic and policy position accorded to it by Keynesian economic management. For unions, the …