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Re-Claiming The Right-To-Work

Centre for Labour Management Relations

Thursday, December 10, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)

Re-Claiming The Right-To-Work

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In recent years, the phrase “right to work” has come to be synonymous with a right-wing agenda in the United States to undermine the trade union movement by prohibiting union security agreements, restricting the payment of union dues, and weakening the economic power of unions. Ironically, far from providing a general guarantee of employment to people seeking work, so-called “right-to-work” laws restrict freedom of association by limiting the kinds of contractual agreements unions can make with employers and, in many cases, have resulted in lower wages and benefits for workers.

This event, co-sponsored by Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR), the Centre for Labour Management Relations, Faraday Law, and Goldblatt Partners, seeks to re-claim the “right to work” by re-framing work as a public good, rather than a commodity. Such a shift has far-reaching implications:

  • If the right to work is a human right, what does this mean for the right of workers to participate in productive activities and to obtain an adequate standard of living?
  • What are the implications for national and international regulatory systems, as well as transnational migration?
  • How can such a shift help organized labour and non-unionized workers to respond to growing conditions of precarity and the erosion of decent work?

We will explore these questions, and more, at a panel discussion of trade unionists, workers' activists, and academics.


Panelists:

Moderator:

 

The event is FREE.
Come learn and share 
your thoughts.

Light snacks & refreshments will be served.

 

Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015

Time: 05:30 PM – 07:30 PM

Location: TRS Commons (1-150), 7th Floor, Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ted Rogers School of Management
TRS Commons (TRS 1-150), 7th Floor
55 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
Canada

Thursday, December 10, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)


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Centre for Labour Management Relations

The Ted Rogers School of Management's Centre for Labour Management Relations seeks to promote collaborative, ethical, entrepreneurial, proactive and sustainable best-practice labour management relations across Canada through funding ground breaking research and transferring knowledge to receptor communities. 

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