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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reshef, Yonatan, author.

Rastin, Sandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government employee unions--Alberta.

Government employee unions.

Government employee unions--Ontario.

Employee-management relations in government--Alberta.

Employee-management relations in government.

Employee-management relations in government--Ontario.

Ontario.

Alberta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-99428-6

9786611994280

1-4426-8292-2

OCLC:

1013957318