IDLR215 Unit 2 Exam Questions With Verified
Answers 2024/2025
Canadian Congress of Labour:
The result of the joining of the All-Canadian Congress of Labour and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations to give Canada two national labour federations.
Canadian Labour Congress:
The result of the joining of the Trades and Labour Congress and the Canadian Congress of Labour to
give Canada a single national labour federation
Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
The passing of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms provided a new set of guidelines for Canadians
industrial relations such as the rights as the freedom of association.
Conciliation Act:
legislation created a federal department of labour and gave it the ability to appoint third-party
intervenors or commissions of inquiry to assist in resolving labour disputes
Confederation of Canadian Unions:
Was formed as an alternative to the Canadian Labour Congress, free from American controlled
international unions
Confederation of Industrial Organizations:
A federation founded to represent workers in mass-production industries and to organize
unorganized workers
Continental Movement:
the movement of American-based international unions entering central Canada
Craft Union:
the earliest attempts to organize trade unions in Canada. Compromised of small groups of workers
usually in a specific trade or occupation
Industrial Disputes Investigations Act:
Legislation that required industrial disputes under federal jurisdiction be submitted to a neutral third
party to end the dispute
Industrial Unionism:
A form of unionism the focused on strength in numbers and maximizing power by recruiting as many
members as possible regardless of occupation
Industrial Workers of the World:
nicknamed the Wobblies and American-based with socialist orientation they advocated general
strikes as a means of not only achieving workers demands but also bringing about a new egalitarian
society
, International Unions:
Unions with international affiliations (most often American)
Knights of Labour:
American based international union promoting the idea that all workers regardless of occupation or
employer should belong to unions.
Monopoly Laws:
Laws designed to stop merchants or traders from colluding with each other for the purpose of
controlling or dominating a product market
Nine-Hire Movement:
a movement to decrease the working day from a 10-12 hour day to 9 hour day with the idea that
workers would be more productive because they are less tired.
North American Free Trade Agreement:
Canadas participation in worldwide tariff reductions
One Big Union:
A large American-based industrial union
Para-Public Sector:
consists of organizations who are funded by the government but do not work directly for the
government
P.C. 1003:
a war-time order-in-council that included compulsory collective bargaining and the right of "employee
representatives" to be certified as bargaining agents by a labour relations boards, if the
representatives could prove that they had sufficient support amount employees in the workplace
Primary Industries:
Resource based industries such as forestry or fishing
Rand Formula:
the automatic deduction of union dies from employees pay cheques
Secondary Industries:
industries such as construction or steel production
Tertiary Industries:
service industries
Trades and Labour Congress:
Answers 2024/2025
Canadian Congress of Labour:
The result of the joining of the All-Canadian Congress of Labour and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations to give Canada two national labour federations.
Canadian Labour Congress:
The result of the joining of the Trades and Labour Congress and the Canadian Congress of Labour to
give Canada a single national labour federation
Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
The passing of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms provided a new set of guidelines for Canadians
industrial relations such as the rights as the freedom of association.
Conciliation Act:
legislation created a federal department of labour and gave it the ability to appoint third-party
intervenors or commissions of inquiry to assist in resolving labour disputes
Confederation of Canadian Unions:
Was formed as an alternative to the Canadian Labour Congress, free from American controlled
international unions
Confederation of Industrial Organizations:
A federation founded to represent workers in mass-production industries and to organize
unorganized workers
Continental Movement:
the movement of American-based international unions entering central Canada
Craft Union:
the earliest attempts to organize trade unions in Canada. Compromised of small groups of workers
usually in a specific trade or occupation
Industrial Disputes Investigations Act:
Legislation that required industrial disputes under federal jurisdiction be submitted to a neutral third
party to end the dispute
Industrial Unionism:
A form of unionism the focused on strength in numbers and maximizing power by recruiting as many
members as possible regardless of occupation
Industrial Workers of the World:
nicknamed the Wobblies and American-based with socialist orientation they advocated general
strikes as a means of not only achieving workers demands but also bringing about a new egalitarian
society
, International Unions:
Unions with international affiliations (most often American)
Knights of Labour:
American based international union promoting the idea that all workers regardless of occupation or
employer should belong to unions.
Monopoly Laws:
Laws designed to stop merchants or traders from colluding with each other for the purpose of
controlling or dominating a product market
Nine-Hire Movement:
a movement to decrease the working day from a 10-12 hour day to 9 hour day with the idea that
workers would be more productive because they are less tired.
North American Free Trade Agreement:
Canadas participation in worldwide tariff reductions
One Big Union:
A large American-based industrial union
Para-Public Sector:
consists of organizations who are funded by the government but do not work directly for the
government
P.C. 1003:
a war-time order-in-council that included compulsory collective bargaining and the right of "employee
representatives" to be certified as bargaining agents by a labour relations boards, if the
representatives could prove that they had sufficient support amount employees in the workplace
Primary Industries:
Resource based industries such as forestry or fishing
Rand Formula:
the automatic deduction of union dies from employees pay cheques
Secondary Industries:
industries such as construction or steel production
Tertiary Industries:
service industries
Trades and Labour Congress:
