Union Card Checks Defeated

The Senate by a vote of 43 to 34 yesterday abolished card check union certification for nearly a million Canadians in federally-regulated workplaces. Senators passed a Conservative amendment to a cabinet bill to require that new unions be certified by mandatory secret ballot: ‘To suggest we should just be rubber-stamping legislation does not fly.’

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