This intervention, a direction to the Canada Industrial Labour Relations Board (CILRB), requires the two railway companies and the union to enter into binding arbitration and requires workers to go back to work and restart the railway operations.
This intervention, a direction to the Canada Industrial Labour Relations Board (CILRB), requires the two railway companies and the union to enter into binding arbitration and requires workers to go back to work and restart the railway operations.
It is going to arbitration, which seems like a funny way to resolve it but yeah.
It’s going in forced arbitration. Big difference here.
If both parties agreed to do arbitration, it would be dandy.
But nowadays, the government is eager to shut down any strike with special laws sprinkled with bullshit, and fuck over the workers’ right to strike.
Is that different than binding arbitration?
No, it is binding, just neither of the parties agreed to send it to arbitration. Which I’d say is worse but arbitration always ends with an outcome that’s shitty for both sides.
So what if they continue to refuse to work after that if the contract is bad? Police are going to force them to work? Isn’t that slavery?