The Windsor Strike

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The paper briefly examines the context surrounding the 1945 Windsor Strike as well as its historic impact upon the labour movement in Canada. The paper suggests that the dictates of the Rand decision made it far easier than ever before for unions to accrue the funds they needed to aggressively combat perceived depredations visited upon them by corporate management.

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"The 1945 Windsor Strike profoundly changed the course of management-labour relations in Canada, at least for a time. The following paper will describe the 1945 Windsor Strike and also briefly outline the grievances from which it emerged. More importantly for our purposes, however, the paper will outline the long-term impact of the strike upon the Canadian workplace. As will soon become apparent, the 1945 strike galvanized many Canadian workers and served as a catalyst for dramatic change - but that change has since been checked by the emergence of a novel global economy. As the preceding paragraph has indicated, the 1945 Ford Windsor Strike was one of the most momentous management-worker squabbles in Canadian history. According to one Government of Canada web site, many industrial employers wanted to return work conditions to the way they had been in the pre-war years."

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