Organizing Unions

David Bennett is the national director of the Department of Workplace Health, Safety and Environment at the Canadian Labour Congress in Ottawa.

This guide for workers who want to organize a union in their workplace
is aimed particularly at women, ethnic minorities, people with
disabilities, and low-paid temporary and part-time workers. Written in
straightforward language and as user-friendly as possible given the
complexity of the subject, the book is likely to be used as a handy
reference book as often as it serves as a step-by-step manual.

Although the authors focus on Ontario, they provide information on how
to organize in other jurisdictions. Their legal perspective is tedious
but inevitable: Canada has a highly structured, legalistic, and
state-supervised industrial relations system, and there is no practical
alternative to working in and through it.

The only fault in this otherwise excellent guide is the lack of an
index or other form of road map (the one-page Quick Reference Guide is
inadequate) that would link the various themes and issues discussed in
the text.