North American industrial relations: divergent trends in Canada and the United States

During the past 20 years many firms in the United States have pursued, with government acquiescence, policies of de-unionisation, even where collective bargaining was well established; of active union avoidance so as to remain free of its rigours; or of replacing the old adversarialism by new co-operative relations. These trends, said by some to amount to a transformation of American industrial relations, are much weaker in Canada. Canadian …