Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats represent the largest left-leaning force in Canadian politics. Under their leadership, provincial governments have implemented social health and social auto insurance plans. NDP provincial governments have also demonstrated their willingness to increase social welfare spending, redistribute tax burdens and occasionally nationalize resource industries...
Against the general backdrop of depressing economic developments and political realignments, the New Democratic Party and the National Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) are intensifying their cooperative electoral efforts. The Congress is preparing to commit an unprecedented number of staff people and field organizers to the NDP for the 60 days prior to election...
...both groups have concentrated on elite politics, but in failing to politicize their memberships, both organizations have underscored their own weaknesses. The lack of a strong political culture in Canada has to labor's relatively low political status, a state of affairs recently highlighted by the capitulation of Canadian postal workers to the federal government over the issue of the postal workers' right to strike...
Bogged down in negotiations with the federal government over a long-overdue contract, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers voted for a national strike to speed up stalled negotiations. After two days of the strike, the federal government passed back-to-work legislation with heavy penalities for disobedience. Arguing that a right that is removed when exercised is no right at all, the postal workers defied the law and fought to protect their right to strike...
...Canadian labor split over the issue of supporting the postal workers' refusal to return to work. The National CLC refused to endorse the postal workers' position, while Quebec labor and a number of CLC affiliates strongly supported the strikers. The CLC refused to back the postal workers for "strategic reasons." According to Charles Bauer, CLC director of public relations, the CLC felt "at that time it was a suicidal decision to try to buck the federal government." Essentially, the CLC felt too weak to effectively rally around the beleaguered postal workers, and the national labor organization preferred not to risk...