期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2009
卷号：13
出版社：York University
摘要：There is a scene in the film Billy Elliot of replacement miners being bused in to work in Northern England while the striking workers pelt them with eggs and insults. The striking miners tell the replacement workers that they might as well be stealing the food they needed to feed their families. While images like these are rare in Canada today, picket line confrontations are no less tense. The fact that most businesses in Canada are allowed to hire people to do the jobs of striking workers is still very contentious among interested parties. This article reviews the arguments for and against adopting an anti-scab law and considers what impact such laws have on unions, businesses and individual workers. This article will then look at the constellation of players in today's debate: governments, political parties, labour organizations, and the business community. The article will focus on the Canadian Labour Congress' (CLC) unsuccessful campaign for a federal anti-scab law, in the form of bill C-257, to determine what, if anything, it says about labour politics and what lessons it provides for labour law reformers
