This annual survey alerts readers to emerging trends, explores issues, and investigates processes that can assist labour and management in building relationships.
Document Highlights
Highlights of this year’s report include:
- A high degree of maturity has evolved in labour relations; both union and management now openly acknowledge that their individual interests are inextricably linked.
- Work stoppages are unlikely in the year ahead. Only 3 per cent of organizations expect a strike or lockout in 2002.
- Due to recent economic setbacks, the pendulum of power in Canadian labour relations has swung to management.
- Workers will be expected to be as nimble and flexible as contractors, if they hope to avoid the imposition of contracting-out provisions.
- An ageing workforce, combined with potential layoffs in a contracting economy, will lead unions to put pensions and employment security front and centre.
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