Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States

For years, the Canada and the United States had roughly the same unionization rates. But around 1960, that changed. Union membership in the U.S. began a steady decline while in Canada, the rate continued to climb before begininng to inch lower at a much slower pace than in the U.S. A new report from Local 70's Kris Warner documents tthe change in rates and suggests reasons why union membership on one side of the border is so different from the other.