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WORK STOPPAGES * Canada - Feds study impacts on businesses
The federal government has released a report that attempts to explain the causes and impacts of strikes and lockouts to the nation's federally regulated private sector
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -24 Feb 2009: -- Rona Ambrose, Minister of Labour, made public the report this week, Work Stoppages in the Federal Private Sector: Innovative Solutions... The federally regulated jurisdiction represents 8.5 percent of the Canadian labor force, covering approximately 46,000 workplaces and 1.1 million workers in the federal private sector and Crown corporations... This includes Canadians working in large segments of the trucking industry, as well as railways, ports and shipping companies, airlines, broadcasting and telecommunications companies and postal services... The Canadian transport sector, particularly the railways and ports, is constantly under the threat of strike action... The whole report is available on the Labour Program's Web site at www.labour.gc.ca.... (Ottawa wants to measure the impacts to the economy from labor disruptions)Labels: strikes
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