In response to your questions I think you should look at some of the work
being done by the Canadian Research Institute of the Advancement of Women
CRIAW-ICREF.
They have published a fact sheet on women an precarity in the public
sector. It includes some discussion on resistance.
I suggest you go to the CRIAW-ICREF website and look under the changing
public services tab
There is a report from the Ottawa cluster.
Other work is in progress.
This brings me to an important point --in looking at precarity it is
critical to apply an intersectional lens --especially since women, and
often historically marginalized groups of women form signficant numbers of
precarious workers.
Union resistance to precarity comes in many forms. This includes:
- struggles to keep public libraries opened and well staffed. CUPE
reports that libraries have a significant number of precarious workers
- struggles by CUPE etc. around sessional workers and graduate studentsat
colleges and universities
- the very long fight by the Canadian Union of Postal workers to gain
bargaining rights for Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers. Before CUPW
bargained for them, they were precarious workers and contractors
- the fight of HEU in BC to oppose Bill 29 and their struggle to organize
workers who were contracted out and their fight against privatization of
health care, including their current struggle to stop a for profit company
from providing seniors care in the Sunshine Coast, where it is currently
provided by the Local Health authority
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Bryan Evans <b1evans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear friends and colleagues:
I am researching the political response of trade unions, in Canada and
abroad, to the expansion of precarity and the low wage labour market. I’m
particularly interested in active forms of resistance through strikes but
also the contribution of unions to the ideological/policy debate. In
addition, in some countries, Spain in particular, a new political formation
came about as a result of this resistance by workers.
Any literature, academic or think tank, web sites worth visiting?
Bryan Evans, PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Policy Innovation and
Public Engagement
Principal Investigator
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
Policy Engagement at Multiple Levels of Governance:
Living Wage and Minimum Wage Policy
Review Editor (English*), Canadian Journal of Political Science*
Associate Editor, *Alternatives* (*Studies in Political Economy*)
