Labour Minister Harry Bains introduced new labour code legislation that did not remove the secret ballot and replace it with a card check system in which a majority of union members must sign cards…
VICTORIA – B.C.’s New Democrat government abandoned plans to scrap the secret ballot union certification process Tuesday, despite heavy lobbying from union allies that the move was necessary to boost worker rights.
Premier John Horgan campaigned on the idea of card check, which unions have said would make it easier to certify but which businesses oppose because they argue it would make employees more susceptible to intimidation by colleagues. Green leader Andrew Weaver said he would never support eliminating the secret ballot process, forcing a showdown between the power-sharing partners because the NDP minority government requires the three Green MLAs to pass legislation.
The legislation introduced Tuesday would extend successorship on union contracts to security services, bus transportation, food services and non-clinical health care jobs in a bid to avoid contract flipping and mass firings.
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