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Photo credit: JESSICA LEE / FREE PRESS FILES Brandon Trask is an assistant law professor at the University of Manitoba and a former prosecutor.

Winnipeg Free Press: Manitoba anti-scab law criticized as unconstitutional

January 27, 2025 — 

Brandon Trask, an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of law, said the addition to the Labour Relations Act, which passed in an omnibus budget bill in November, doesn’t just make it an unfair labour practice for a company to employ replacement workers. It goes a step further by banning employees from working during a strike.

“(This law) in practice removes the right of any worker to choose whether to join a strike or cross a picket line,” he said.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to the Winnipeg Free Press.

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