Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401

• Autor principal: Jason Foster (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Athabasca University Press 2018
• Colección: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
• Materias: unions; labour force; strikes; Doug O'Halloran; trade unions; immigrant labourers; XL Fine Foods
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant-many of whom were immigran...