Low unemployment could boost trend of union organizing in retail, service: experts
. Just this Friday, workers at an Edmonton Starbucks voted to unionize with the United Steelworkers Union, joining peers in multiple Alberta and British Columbia municipalities.
“And once they form a union and start collective bargaining, a lower unemployment rate gives them a bit more bargaining power,” he said.“It would be wishful thinking to imagine that a relatively tight labour market alone will somehow cause a sea change in union organizing trends,” he said. Stanford said in an interview that it can take time for new union drives to show up in Statistics Canada numbers because data on unionized workplaces is generally based on collective agreements, which can take a significant amount of time to be cemented after a successful union drive.But it’s not the only barrier workers are facing, he said.
Stanford said one change that would make a big difference would be if workers could bargain in larger groups, similar to how construction workers are unionized by trade and geography instead of by individual workplaces.
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