The Games CLAC Plays

CLAC is not a big union, but it is one of the fastest growing. This growth may be directly related to CLAC’s workplace organizing tactics – tactics designed from allowing worker the choice between CLAC and real unions.

The record shows some of the games CLAC’s played:

CLAC accepts invitations by employers to enter into voluntary recognition agreements. This stops organizing efforts of traditional unions.

CLAC enters into voluntary agreements with an employer before any employees have been hired, or before the bulk of employees have been hired.

CLAC enters into voluntary agreements with an employer without obtaining legitimate support from the workers it represents.

CLAC enters into inferior collective agreements compared to those of other unions that represent workers in the same industry or with the same employer.

CLAC proposes wage rates in first collective agreements that are in some cases less than workers in the bargaining unit were previously earning.

CLAC conducts collective agreement ratification votes among workers before a wage schedule is negotiated into the collective agreement.

CLAC has permitted management representatives to attend union meetings to discuss and vote on agreements.

Need more evidence of the games CLAC plays?

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• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, “Negotiated without a Floor: Unionized Worker Exclusion for BC Employment Standards,” July 2007
• Alberta Federation of Labour, “The Games CLAC Plays”
• Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, "Act on the Facts"