THE TRADE-UNION PRESENCE IN QUEBEC IN 2007

The Ministry of Labor publishes its analysis entitled. Quebec is the place which continues to display the strongest trade-union cache hit rate in North America with a rate of 40%, whereas the low rate still returns to the United States, with 13,3%.

The study establishes however that this trade-union presence observed in Quebec and in the remainder of Canada somewhat decreased compared to 2006, that is to say respectively of 0,5 and 0,2 point of percentage, whereas it increased slightly in Ontario and in the United States (0,1 and 0,2). Also let us announce that the sector having more contributed to the fall of the trade-union cache hit rate in Quebec during the last decade was that of the manufacture, whose share of employment fell of almost 5 points of percentage. This phenomenon is also observed in Ontario and, to a lesser extent, for the remainder of Canada. Nevertheless, other sectors as that of construction came to somewhat mitigate these falls for the whole of the Canadian areas.

This annual study, let us specify, changes it mainly on the situation observed to Quebec of 1998 to 2007, by comparing it with those of Ontario, the remainder of Canada, and the United States. It also evaluates the contribution of the various lines of business economic to the variations of the trade-union cache hit rates observed one year to the other.

Question methodology, the study on the trade-union presence is interested in all the subjugated people with collective agreements, that is to say those belonging to a unity of negotiation, which they are members regulates some or not of a trade union.

For more information on the unit of the question, consult it.

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