Government does everything it can to keep canadian wages low to attract business. Corporations are more likely to ~~invest~~ extract from Canada if the government of Canada undermines fair negotiations and writes back to work legislation every time and stomps all over its citizens'rights.

The AC union fought back and ignored back to work orders. They had huge support among Canadians. They were then quietly taken out back and shot by the Canadian government and its arbitration.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aircanada/comments/1r7jj82/arbitration_over_for_flight_attendants/

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You won't see me disagreeing with that. I've been following the AC, CP, CN strikes and I saw what you observed. I think it's not even primarily for foreign investment, although that probably is a downstrean effect. I think it's primarily for our own corporations' owners benefit. They have significant lobbying power, and at least two of the major parties ideologically support firms over workers as many of them still believe in some form of trickle-down free-market economics. It's bad. There's been no positive change in direction towards organized labour from the Carney gov't. I think they're going to discover that their promises of higher wages would fall flat without strengthening org labour. Perhaps it's a delayed tactic, an attempt to shore up the economy in these times before they let labour have its share, but that ignores that (sovereign) economic strength largely comes from robust domestic demand, which means higher wages. And I don't believe it's a delay tactic anyway. The simpler explanation is the more obvious one.