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Again, what are they bargaining for that isn't already legislated by the government? Vacation time? Sick Days? Minimum wage? Overtime? These are all things that each provincial government already has legislation in place for.
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Um, wages? Its sort of a big one (i.e., the reason pretty much all of us enter into an employment contract.) Of course, pension, vacation, overtime (above legislated minimums) are other potential concessions that employees might reasonably seek from an employer.
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Nobody is legislating away work rights.
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Collective bargaining is nearly universally regarded as a fundamental expression of the right to freedom of association (at least in western liberal democracies.)
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As for the arbitrator, who sits on the WCB in each province? If you bother to look it up, you'd notice that there are people from all 3 sides. Government side, corporate side, and employee side. In a similar fashion a non-partisan arbitrator could have people from all sides play a part in the process, and from that a decision is made.
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It may shock you to learn that I am familiar (though by no means an expert) with a wide range of employment law areas, including collective bargaining and workers compensation boards. Workers compensation boards are administrative tribunals. They do not negotiate anything. They serve a totally different function than collective bargaining.
You also avoided the more pertinent questions that I posed; namely, (1) why shouldn't employees be permitted to use any tactic, including collective bargaining, that they think will maximize their bargaining power?; and (2) why should the government interfere in the free market by removing or restricting collective bargaining and thereby artificially weakening the bargaining power of employees?
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You know, similar to how the major sports league handle player arbitration.
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Um, where do you think those player arbitration regimes came from? Oh yeah, collective bargaining.
If public employees and employers happen to agree on some sort of arbitration model, great. However, I have no idea why either of them should be forced into a bargaining regime if they do not want to.