Defying expectations : the case of UFCW local 401

Defying expectations the case of UFCW local 401

"In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was walking 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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Foster, Jason, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edmonton, [Alberta] : Athabasca University Press 2018.
Series:Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
Subjects:
United Food and Commercial Workers Canada. > Local 401.
Labor unions.
unions, trade unions, strikes, labour force, immigrant labourers, Doug O'Halloran, XL Fine Foods.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432707706719
Table of Contents:
  • Facing new challenges : from Safeway to Shaw
  • Victory at Lakeside
  • The old/new look of Local 401
  • Narratives and the making of Local 401
  • Accidental revitalization and the role of leadership
  • Revisiting the business/social union divide.

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