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Title	Jurisdiction	Type of Legislation	Date
Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act, 2011 (Bill C-6, June) This legislation force locked-out postal workers back to work, is bias against CUPW and its members. It imposed wage increases that are less than the employer’s last offer and referred all other outstanding issues to final offer arbitration and restricted the impariality of the arbitrator in deciding on a settlement.	Federal Government	Back to work - settlement imposed	June 2011
TTC Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2011 (Bill 150, March) This Act eliminates the right to strike by the transit workers and provides for binding arbitration, should negotiations fail to reach agreement.	Ontario	Back to work - dispute sent to arbitration	March 2011
An Act to ensure the continuity of the provision of legal services within the Government and certain public bodies, 2011 (Bill 135, February) This Act ended a two week strike by the provinces 1,500 government lawyers crown prosecutors. It also imposed a five-year agreement on the lawyers with a six percent salary raise, far short of the 40 percent wage hike the Quebec Crown Prosecutors Association had been asking for during negotiations.	Quebec	Back to work - settlement imposed	February 2011
An Act to Amend the Labour Act of Prince Edward Island, 2011 (Bill 35, January) This Act amends the provincial Labour Act to add employees of ambulance service providers as well as dispatchers for police, fire and ambulance services to the list of essential workers who cannot strike but must instead go to binding arbitration if contract negotiations break down.	Prince Edward Island	Restrictions on scope of bargaining	January 2011
Ambulance Services Collective Agreement Act, 2009 (Bill 21, November) This legislation imposed a contract on B.C.’s ambulance paramedics after a seven-month strike in which workers had continued to work at essential service levels	British Columbia	Back to work - settlement imposed	November 2009
Essential Services in Nursing Homes Act, 2009 (Bill 41, May) The legislation enacted a process for negotiating essential service designation levels for home care and support workers in 49 of the province’s private nursing homes in the event of a strike. Any disputes over designation levels will be referred to the Labour and Employment Board.	New Brunswick	Restrictions on scope of bargaining	May 2009
Construction Industry Labour Relations Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 80, April 2010) This legislation has three objectives: to eliminate sectoral bargaining in the construction industry, to allow the establishment of employer-dominated company unions and to greatly reduce the power of unions in the construction industry.	Saskatchewan	Restrictions on scope of bargaining	April 2009
Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act, 2009 (Bill C-10, March) This Act, as part of the federal government’s 2009 Budget Implementation Act, removed the right of public sector workers to collectively file complaints for pay equity with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, forcing women to file complaints as individuals. It imposes a $50,000 fine on any union that encourages or assists their own members in filing a pay equity complaint.	Federal Government	Restrictions on scope of bargaining	March 2009
Expenditure Restraint Act, 2009 (Bill C-10, March) This Act, as part of the federal government’s 2009 Budget Implementation Act, imposed caps on salary increases for federal government employees, prohibited any additional remuneration such as allowance, bonus, differential or premium and prohibited any changes to the classification system that resulted in increased pay rates. In several cases, the legislation override previously negotiated collective agreements containing wage increases above the imposed salary caps.	Federal Government	Suspension of bargaining rights	March 2009
York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145, January) The legislation ended an 11-week strike by teaching assistants and contract professors at York University and forced the dispute to be settled through mediation/arbitration.	Ontario	Back to work - dispute sent to arbitration	January 2009

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