It’s been a year of high-profile strikes and negotiations between employers and unions across North America, but two professors from the University of Victoria say B.C.’s labour movement’s decades-long decline has yet to bounce back. “These sorts of changes take time to manifest,” said Justin Leifso, assistant professor of political science at UVic. “It’s not like you can wake up one day and all of a sudden, thousands of people have been unionized.” Union membership rates have been declining since the 1980s in Canada as well as other countries, he said, but more recent snapshots suggest that people “by and large support labour movements, unions, and job action” more than they would have even five years ago ... CLICK HERE for the full story
A discussion on political, economic and social issues in British Columbia, and Canada