Length: 2000 words (+/– 250 words)
Topic: Your essay is to address the following two questions:
- Referring to four of the Supreme Court of Canada cases you read, what human rights claims about unionization and collective bargaining rights have workers advanced under the Charter?
- Reference Re Public Service Employee Relations Act (Alberta), [1987] 1 S.C.R. 313.
- Dunmore v. Ontario (Attorney General), [2001] 3 S.C.R. 1016, 2001 SCC 94.
- Health Services and Support—Facilities Subcontractor Bargaining Assn. v. British Columbia,[2007] SCC 27, [2007] 2 S.C.R. 391.
- Ontario (Attorney General) v. Fraser, 2011 SCC 20.
- To what degree have these claims been successful? Include explicit discussion of the Supreme Court decisions you read in Unit 3.
Instructions: For each case, your essay must identify the main issue(s) and explain how each issue is linked to a Charter right. Your essay must also explain how the case was decided and what implications the decision had for worker unionization and collective bargaining.
