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Community Unionism and Alt-Labour in Canada
From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
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For organized labour, realizing the potential of community unionism must become a priority. And yet for all of organized labour’s talk of the need to do things differently, after forty years on the defensive, most unions continue to “focus the vast majority of their time, energy, and resources on protecting the little power they have left against an onslaught of political and corporate attacks,” and their structure and legal mandates “incentivize an inward, protectionist focus on serving existing union members and maintaining existing unionized companies and industries.”
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Simon Black
Simon Black teaches in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.