Over the last few decades, the workplace in Canada has experienced profound changes.
Work has become increasingly insecure for a growing number of people, young workers …

Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This
difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality. Conventional wisdom points …

The author estimates the impact of compulsory election laws on certification success using
data on over 6,500 private sector certifications from British Columbia over the years 1978 …

Cross‐section time‐series analysis of nine Canadian jurisdictions over nineteen years is
used to identify the effect of mandatory votes/card check on certification success. The results …

NPD 6tait au pouvoir mais sont retournms a leurs niveaux historiques sous les
conservateurs. In 1990 Bob Rae's New Democratic (NDP) government was elected in …

Why are US labor unions so weak? Union decline has had important consequences for
politics, inequality, and social policy. Common explanations cite employment shifts, public …

Newly certified unions often experience difficulty negotiating a first agreement. To remedy
this, the Employee Free Choice Act proposes that the National Labor Relations Act provide …

This article provides empirical evidence concerning the impact of mandatory votes on the
Canada‐US density gap. Simulation analysis reveals (1) that the increasing use of …

In all of these areas, US employers have led the descent. Union density in the USA has
dropped to 14 per cent for the first time in more than 60 years. For the last two decades …

An examination of the factors that determine Canadian union density reveals long-run
decline in union membership growth. A stock-flow accounting analysis decomposes union …