IN SOLIDARITY

Re “Strikes, labour unrest seen in Europe could come to Canada in a winter of discontent” (Report on Business, Jan. 26): Three cheers for Canadian Labour Congress president Bea Bruske’s prescription for prosperity.

As a retired national representative for Canada’s largest union, I know “card-check” takes the government’s thumb off the scale of employer power for union votes. A relatively wider use of automatic union recognition by member sign-up, rather than a web of parochial government-supervised votes and regulations, helps explain the 2022 rise in Canada’s annual unionization rate compared with before the pandemic.

By comparison, recent plunges in U.S. and British unionization rates may well explain increased labour unrest in those countries.

Tom Baker