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Averting Strikes in Essential Services

78.12 Averting Strikes in Essential Services

Whereas

Provincial Labour Legislation needs to be reconsidered and reconstructed periodically;

Whereas

As things stand, these matters can hold up a bargaining session for long periods, unfairly causing loss of time to both labour and management, and in the case of essential services, creates suffering and unhappiness to the citizens involved; and,

Whereas

A settlement could be legislated for mediation on break-down of collective bargaining to achieve the same objective as a strike; therefore be it,

RESOLVED

That The National Council of Women of Canada urge the Provincial Councils of Women to continue to investigate systems which would settle Labour – Management conflicts, without injury or suffering to the innocent third party.