Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 1998

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 1998

Academic contests? Merit pay in Canadian universities.
September 22, 1998... Fiscal retrenchment by federal and provincial governments has placed pressure on Canadian universities to create a more market-driven system of higher education. Declining operating grants and greater reliance on tuition fees has meant...

Behavioural determinants of public sector illegal strikes: cases from Canada and the U.S.
September 22, 1998... Taking away the right to strike is a bit like eliminating the vapor safety valve on a boiler. Employees need to know that they have this means of relieving their frustrations and internal tension -- even if they never use it. Otherwise an...

Unions, wages and total compensation in Canada: an empirical study.(includes appendices)
September 22, 1998... The body of Canadian literature is robust in demonstrating empirically that unions provide their members with a rather large wage premium. Studies using aggregate data tend to show a positive wage differential of about 10 to 20 percent (Kumar...

Are seniority-based layoffs discriminatory? The adverse impact of layoffs on designated groups.
September 22, 1998... Although the "last-in-first-out" principle is associated with trade unions, workers were demanding the application of seniority in layoff decisions well before unions won the legitimate authority to bargain on behalf of workers. For example,...

Managerial opposition to union certification in Quebec and Ontario.(includes appendix)
September 22, 1998... It is well known that union density trends in Canada and the United States have diverged markedly in recent years. In the United States, the proportion of workers represented by unions has fallen from 28.9 percent in 1975 to 14.5 percent in...