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Union Rights are Workers Rights - What is the Rand Formula?

Don't be fooled by false slogans like "Right to Work"...

In 1945, after a 99 day strike of 17,000 workers at a Ford plant in Windsor, Ontario, the United Auto Workers union and the Employer agreed to resolve their dispute through binding arbitration. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, where Justice Ivan Rand ruled...

Read the full PDF of this landmark piece of Union history...