Introduction to Labour History 

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But... that's what a union is. Any group of people working together to protect or increase their labor rights is a labor union. Groups need leaders in order to organize and focus, otherwise everyone pulls in different directions and the group as whole achieves nothing. There's a reason why so many effective leaders have been assassinated - they get things done. Disorganized chaos isn't a good alternative to corruption.

I'm almost finished mine! I'll copy and past them into the comments for you.

Fiona Weeb OMG THANK YOU

@@gymnastmeghamoo8503Lets just hope were not somehow in the same class lol here are my notes! Union Notes • Beginning: In the 1500s the Lords began to fence off communal lands. This made the peasants dependant workers who relied only on wages. • The government made sure all employers had the upper hand. • They made restrictions that left workers looking for other jobs with better wages, but they couldn’t leave. • There were “Masters and Servants” acts that forced the worker to contract for long periods of time and made workers resistance a criminal offence. • Workers who committed offences would be jailed. • Eventually the economics system changed, and capitalism emerged in Britain and the Netherlands. • Employers would hire the cheapest workers possible (Women and Children) and exploited them. • By the 1800s British law regarded unions as combinations in restraint trade, and the penalties for trying to form one were severe. • In 1832 a group of farmers joined together to pressure employers to stop decreasing their wages. They were arrested and deported to Australia. • In the 1800s many Canadians supported themselves as independent farmers, fishers or craft workers. • In the 1870s over 200 strikes were recorded, tripling the level of work stoppages in that decade. • Even when times were bad employers still wouldn’t bargain. • Canadas first unified working-class movement was made when craftworkers formed leagues to reduce the working day to nine hours. • In 1872 unions were legal for the first time, but they still had many restrictions. • They came together for parades and festivals creating Labour Day. • In the 1880s politicised workers became interested in an aggressive new unionism to improve conditions for all workers. • There success concerned the government so much that they appointed the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital in 1886. • The Industrial Disputes and Investigation Act of 1907 did little to regress the power imbalance between unions and employers. • Fearful of free speech, employers and the government recruited labour spies and vigilantes, and would arrest or murder union workers/ protesters. • In 1919 there were over four hundred strikes! Prompting the government to create another inquiry. The Royal Commissions on Industrial Relations. • By 1929 untrammeled capitalism led to a crazy market crash, causing the terrible decade that was the great depression. • Over 1,000,000 Canadians (1/4 workers) were unemployed. • Unemployed workers organized the On to Ottawa track. A cross-country march starting in Vancouver. The RCMP violently stopped in Regina. • After General Motors sped up production in Oshawa and refused to recognize union representatives, over 4,000 workers walked out. They won the strike in only 15 days. • In 1935 The Wagner Act started. This was a new deal in the united states where the employers, for the first time, would bargain with union representatives. • Only in 1944 did the Federal Government declare the Privy Council Order Number 1003 • In the first half of the 20th century, Parliament and provincial legislatures grudgingly supported collective bargaining between worker and private sector employers. • Mail carriers were not rewarded any raises in over 30 years. • By 1931 2/3rds of Alberta’s teachers had joined the ATA and there was a major strike of Edmonton teachers. • In 1967 the Public Service Staff Relations Act became law, giving federal employees the right to choose between compulsory arbitration, mediation or a strike. • All provinces gave public workers the right to strike except Alberta and Ontario. • Union density peaked in the mid- 1980s, with over 40% of Canadian Workers organized in unions. • By 1970, Canada tipped into a recession that made it seem futile to go on organizing. • When the Red River Colony attempted to make its own government, the military crushed their leaders. • Head taxes kept out unwanted Chinese workers, and the 1910 Immigration Acts made “race” a restrictive legal category. • In the 1960s the immigration acts relaxed, and many people began to immigrate to Canada. • During world war two women were allowed to work. Because men were fighting in the war there was no one to make the ammo, so they had to hire women. After the war ended women were forced out of their jobs so men could take their places. • No one wanted to talk about these issues or do anything about them until 1974. • In 1975 Grace Hartman was elected president of CUPE. She was the first woman to lead a major union in North America. • The Canadian union of postal workers was the first to win paid maternity leave in 1981. • Anyone who was even suspected to be gay or lesbian was fired. (What. Why were/are people like this AHH) • In the 1970s the LGBT+ community spoke up and demanded basic human rights.

Fiona Weeb thank you smm 😊

DUDE!! wth I only saw this comment after I was finished with my notes but yours are better so I borrowed some

...they also did not tell you about the residential schools, the exploidation of the natve population and the murders of native children that took place in these so called residential schools. Time to make thisan open part of our history comitted by the powerful catholic empire heade by the pope. The churches are the culprits and while our present governments are facing up to these crimes the popr refuses to speak a word of apology...