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Employee and Labor Relations (pdf)

   

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Running head: EMPLOYEE AND LABOR RELATIONSEmployee and Labor RelationsName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
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1EMPLOYEE AND LABOR RELATIONSThe year of 1919, saw the soldiers returning to their respective homes just after that ofWorld War I and found high inflation and a great amount of unemployment. They did not getback their work due to the high social tension. Moreover, the workers of various tradeswanted to get fair amount of wages, very much similar to the workers of today’s generation.They simply wanted to get enough earnings in order to support families within that of thechanging economy. In that year, the workers decided to walk off their jobs and protested onto the streets of Winnipeg, in Canada (Blanpain & Bisom-Rapp, 2014). This created the pathfor the largest labor actions that Canada had ever seen. Strikers on the streets were inclusive of public as well as private sectors and the rangewas from the garment workers to the police officials. The Royal North West Mounted Policeas well as the hired union busters were riding on the horses in order to fire the crowdconsisting of around thousands of the workers on June 21, 1919. This fatal incident killed twoworkers and injured many. This later came to be marked as “Bloody Sunday”, that markedthe ending date of the workers’ strike. In Canadian history, it became the largest generalstrike and started setting the stage for the upcoming labor reforms.The year of 1929-39 saw the economic depression and unemployment insurance wasborn. During this period of economic depression, unemployed men were forced to serve inthe government working camps in exchange of meager wages in deserted places(Rosenbloom, 2014). In addition to this, the Vancouver workers were abandoned into thecamps, which later gave rise to the workers’ strike. They protested for two months, but therewas no sign of relief. Failing miserably to promote their points they took this case directly toOttawa (Thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. 2018). Some travelled their by foot and some by thethen railway system.
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