Tony Burke at People’s World reports the British Columbia Labour Relations Board (BCLRB) in Canada has certified the 250,000-Member United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW-Canada) will be recognized for collective bargaining for more than 500 Uber Drivers in British Columbia’s Capital City, Victoria. And, the BCLRB issued another decision which awarded Unifor (the Manufacturing and Engineering Union) the rights to collective bargaining for hundreds of Workers employed at an Amazon Distribution Center in Vancouver. The Union wins at two of the most Anti-Union global companies were achieved because the Unions were able to utilize simple legal rules in the British Columbia Labour Relations Code. In Canada, Labor Relations fall primarily within Provincial rather than Federal jurisdictions.

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