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Ford, CUPE, Class Struggle and the Charter: A Primer<https://socialistproject.ca/?p=3420>

Harry Glasbeek

Why do workers strike? In Canada, our fundamental political economic premise is that, if all individuals decide for themselves how to deploy their resources and talents, the best use will be made of our combined resources and talents. Our law, therefore, promotes individual autonomy and choice. However, this wealth-creation model has a built-in problem. Talents are randomly distributed in a population; resources are not. A very small number of individuals own most of the assets. Those with assets, with wealth, have a real choice as to when, where, how much, for how long they will invest their wealth to further their own interests. They have a choice not to invest it at all. They can survive, very well in fact, while not using their wealth to produce goods and services so as to earn more wealth. This gives them clout when they look for individual workers who have no property to fall back on, who must invest, i.e., sell, their only resource: their physical and intellectual talents and capacities.

This is why workers form unions. It enables them to say to employers that they won’t get the help they need to accumulate more wealth unless they give workers a better deal. Workers need the right to strike to off-set the power of the capitalist class. The capitalists’ power depends on their unchallenged right to withhold their capital, or capitalists’ unchallenged right to strike.

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