Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada

It is certainly in no small part due to our unionisation laws in BC. We have "card check" rules to certify union drives:

In June 2022, the NDP government in B.C. passed Bill 10, reinstating card-check union certification. Under B.C.’s card-check model, unions can certify bargaining units after 55 per cent of workers have signed membership cards. Prior to this amendment to the province’s Labour Relations Code, certifying a new bargaining unit required unions to submit signed cards from a minimum of 45 per cent of potential members and then win a majority in a labour board-supervised election.

Research demonstrates that “two-step” unionization allows employers to more easily frustrate union organizing campaigns.

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super interested in how they pulled this off. Uber drivers sound like they’d be very difficult to organize for a variety of reasons
- It is certainly in no small part due to our unionisation laws in BC. We have "card check" rules to certify union drives:
  In June 2022, the NDP government in B.C. passed Bill 10, reinstating card-check union certification. Under B.C.’s card-check model, unions can certify bargaining units after 55 per cent of workers have signed membership cards. Prior to this amendment to the province’s Labour Relations Code, certifying a new bargaining unit required unions to submit signed cards from a minimum of 45 per cent of potential members and then win a majority in a labour board-supervised election.
  Research demonstrates that “two-step” unionization allows employers to more easily frustrate union organizing campaigns.