La fusion et les possibilités de progrès Merger and Possibilities of Progress

Sommaire

L'auteur dans cet article veut prouver que, pour la province de Québec tout comme pour le reste du pays, la fusion est devenue une condition de progrès. Il s'arrête dans une première partie à l'histoire des conflits inter-syndicaux, aux leçons à en tirer; il consacre l'autre partie aux effets de la fusion sur ces conflits, sur la négociation collective, sur les services syndicaux et sur la croissance du syndicalisme au Canada.

Summary

By Merger we mean the creation of a central body on the national and provincial "level". For the Province of Quebec as well as for the Nation, the Merger is a necessity if unionism is to progress.

In the United States, Dave Beck's suspension would not have been possible without the merger AFL-CIO; the merger has created a new power and a new authority inside the Labor Movement; In the Province of Quebec, the conflicts between the CLC and the CCL at Brown-Boveri's of St. John and at Baie-Comeau could have been prevented with the merger of these two unions.

Such conflicts lead to lower union standards to the prejudice of the working class; they compel unions leaders to find solutions for urging problems, neglecting, on the long run, labor interests; they are an obstacle to the exercise of freedom of association.

The merger offers indirect and direct advantages.

1. Indirect advantages: unions will help each other at the bargaining table and strikes will be prevented more often.

2. Direct advantages: unions will develop better services; the Canadian Labor Movement will become independant and powerful. In the Province of Quebec, wages will be higher; labor unions will play a political influence; labor unions will participate in social organizations and with the increase of members, unions will have a better staff.