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Author Reshef, Yonatan.

Title Unions in the time of revolution : government restructuring in Alberta and Ontario / Yonatan Reshef, Sandra Rastin.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 279 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Alberta and Ontario : industrial relations and their contexts -- Revolutions, Canada style -- Collective action conceptual framework -- revolutionizing the Civil Service : OPSEU and AUPE -- Teachers : protecting the profession, defending the union organization -- Sins of commission and sins of omissions : the Ontario days of action and missed opportunities in Alberta -- Sleeping with the devil : strategic voting in the 1999 Ontario Election -- Revisiting the collective action model -- Additional thoughts on collective action.
Summary The election of neo-conservative governments in Alberta and Ontario in the early 1990s brought dramatic changes to provincial public policy; both the Ralph Klein Revolution and Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution emphasized fundamental changes in the role of government, balanced budgets, and the elimination of provincial debts. While public sector unions were forced to react, the response of the Alberta and Ontario unions differed significantly. The reasons, outcome, and long-term impact of the difference is the focus of Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin's careful and revealing analysis. The authors' argument concentrates on union responses to the neo-conservative transformation in the two affected provinces, but the scope of the discussion expands to cover such issues as the differences between the two regimes, the damage to the Ontario labour movement dealt by the labour-oriented NDP government, the limits of inter-union cooperation, and the role of modern unions in politics. Lively and timely, Unions in the Time of Revolution places Canada's unions in the full context of the neo-conservative trend in provincial politics, and demonstrates the importance of individual union responses in times of such significant change.
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Subject Employee-management relations in government -- Alberta.
Employee-management relations in government.
Alberta.
Employee-management relations in government -- Ontario.
Ontario.
Government employee unions -- Alberta.
Government employee unions.
Government employee unions -- Ontario.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rastin, Sandra.
Other Form: Print version: Reshef, Yonatan. Unions in the time of revolution. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2004295060
ISBN 9781442682924 (electronic book)
1442682922 (electronic book)
1281994286
9781281994288
0802087531 (bound)
9780802087539