Canadian courts in recent years have ruled that the nation’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms creates an enforceable right to collective bargaining, that is, compels employers to bargain with unions rather than with individual workers over terms of employment. Now the Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled that the Charter prohibits the provincial government from reserving class size and teacher-student ratios, among other topics, as matters of government policy ruled out of bounds as subjects of bargaining with the teacher’s union. [British Columbia Teachers’ Federation v. British Columbia, 2011 BCSC 469 via Bales, Workplace Prof; related 2009 (Alberta court constitutionalizes mandatory dues checkoff)]
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Doesn’t that mean that in Canada it’s effectively illegal NOT to be a union crony?
Mandatory taxpayer funding of the New Democratic Party and/or Liberal Party, PLUS a complete inability to get an honest day’s work out the corrupt Public Unions.
Combine this with the ferocious PC civil rights violations and freedom of speech problems from the bizarrely misnamed “Human Rights” commissions.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is certainly no Bill of Rights.