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Business Quarterly

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Professors Blum and Teich provide a useful initial framework from which to examine the experiences of British Columbia's public service and public sectors. It also provides a tool for practitioners as they prepare for collective bargaining.

As with other Canadian provincial jurisdictions, the broader public sector (including the public service) in B.C. is intensively unionized. Major political and public policy issues have dominated bargaining for several years: wage restraint, privatization and contracting out, downsizing, devolution of health and other services, and interjurisdictional union competition.

During the same extended period, public-sector ...

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