{"id":7068,"date":"2009-09-08T07:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T15:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2009-09-08T07:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T15:52:35","slug":"canadas-top-court-refuses-to-hear-b-c-unions-appeals-about-one-day-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/09\/canadas-top-court-refuses-to-hear-b-c-unions-appeals-about-one-day-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s top court refuses to hear B.C. unions&#8217; appeals about one-day strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5gCg-SFoleyg6Qx_toSsraJrVRP1g\">Canada&#8217;s top court refuses to hear B.C. unions&#8217; appeals about one-day strikes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, B.C. \u2014 Two prominent British Columbia unions have lost their bid to have the Supreme Court of Canada decide whether a pair of one-day walkouts were Charter-protected political protests or illegal strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers&#8217; and health-workers&#8217; unions staged separate walkouts in 2002 and 2003 to protest a provincial law that stripped their collective agreements &#8211; walkouts the province&#8217;s Labour Relations Board ruled were illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Teachers&#8217; Union and the Hospital Employees Union had challenged the board&#8217;s definition of a strike, but the top court&#8217;s decision not to hear the case upholds a B.C. Court of Appeal ruling that the walkouts were strikes even if they lasted for just a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Press: Canada&#8217;s top court refuses to hear B.C. unions&#8217; appeals about one-day strikes VANCOUVER, B.C. \u2014 Two prominent British Columbia unions have lost their bid to have the Supreme Court of Canada decide whether a pair of one-day walkouts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/09\/canadas-top-court-refuses-to-hear-b-c-unions-appeals-about-one-day-strikes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,2272,2275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-issues","category-strikes-labor-disputes","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}