#wage increase

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has struck down landmark legislation former premier Stephen McNeil’s government used in an effort to restrain wage increases for public sector workers as it attempted to balance the provincial budget. In a decision issued to the involved parties on Friday, Justice Ann E. Smith ruled that Bill 148, the Public Services Sustainability Act, is unconstitutional, writing that the bill “substantially interfered” with the applicant unions’ charter right to a process of good faith collective bargaining. “The government has failed to demonstrate that Bill 148 amounted to a reasonable limit on that right,” the decision says.

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"12,500 STEEL WORKERS OUT AT THREE PLANTS; WAR OUTPUT SUFFERS," Toronto Star. January 14, 1943. Page 1. ---- Loss Set at 170,200 Tons Monthly, Two-Thirds of Nation's Production ---- ASK WAGE BOOST ---- Three of Canada's basic steel producing plants today are tied up by strikes. A total of 12,500 men have quit work at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; Sydney and Trenton, N.S., to enforce demands for wage increases.

Five thousand workers at Sydney, N.S. - on strike for the third day - were joined early today by 4,000 at Sault Ste. Marie and 3,500 at Trenton.

Strikes at Sydney and Sault Ste. Marie tied up two of the dominion's three basic steel producing plants. It was estimated by government figures the loss in production at the two plants would amount to; 170,212 tons a month, or two-thirds of the country's basic steel output.

Workers at the Steel Company of Canada at Hamilton have decided to defer strike action until the company management has been approached regarding negotiations with the United Steelworkers of America (C.I.O.).

Picket Lines Set Up The strike at the Sault began officially at 7 a.m. when members of the day shift didn't report. Picket lines were set up.

The strikers were not joined by 500 transportation department employees and machinists, members of American Federation of Labor unions. These entered the plant to work today and were not interfered with by pickets. An additional 500 men engaged on construction work were not direly affected by the strike, it was reported.

"Backs Strikers,” Windsor Star. May 12, 1942. Page 11. ---- Mrs. Casgrain Wishes Luck to Montreal Bank Employes === MONTREAL, May 12. Mrs. Pierre F. Casgrain, president of the League of Women's Rights, addressing striking union employes of La Banque Canadienne Nationale at a meeting here last night wished them the best of luck in a dispute with their employers. 

Mrs. Casgrain said that persons had the right to organize for mutual betterment and declared that different Popes had been favorable to the uniting of efforts in this way to obtain collective improvements. 

‘Union is an absolute necessity to protect the interests of the worker,’ she said. ‘It is a right which everyone has. There is no reason why anyone should object.’

If landlords are legally allowed to raise my rent 14.5% (and they will. Always. Landlords will raise your rent to the legal limit every year they are legally able to do so) there should be a mandatory 14.5% wage increase in my state.