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Hard bargain: transforming public sector labour-management relations.
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Labour/Le Travail
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March 22, 1999
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1999 Canadian Committee on Labour History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Peter Warrian, Hard Bargain: Transforming Public Sector Labour-Management Relations (Toronto: McGilligan Books 1996)
IN HARD BARGAIN, Peter Warrian argues that the broad Canadian public sector must abandon the American inspired adversarial model of labour relations and, following the lead of the private sector, institute a more market adhering, "post-Wagnerist" model more appropriate to the current reign of neo-liberalism. For its part, public sector labour should foreswear its untenable job-control unionism for a more collaborative and, consequently, employment securing relationship with public sector employers. This attitudinal shift would facilitate the introduction ...
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