scholarly journals It’s Your Job to Save Me: The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers and the Death of Ashley Smith

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Gillian Balfour
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Administrative Segregation ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
Public Campaign ◽  
Global Agreement ◽  
First Time ◽  
Federally Sentenced

Abstract The death of Ashley Smith represents the first time in Canadian legal history that correctional officers were criminally charged in the death of a prisoner under the care of the state. In response to these unprecedented charges, the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO) mounted a highly public campaign in defense of the officers. In this article, I review UCCO’s media statements following Smith’s death, submissions to various government review committees, and the current Global Agreement between UCCO and Correctional Service Canada (CSC) regarding federally sentenced women. I suggest these narratives work to reproduce administrative segregation as necessary to manage “troubled young women” who are constituted as an unsafe working condition for officers. I highlight the failure of UCCO to influence government policy, unlike the effective success of unions in the United States, and I challenge the place of UCCO in Canada’s trade union movement.

The United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944-1951.

1994 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
Frank Costigliola ◽  
Federico Romero ◽  
Harvey Fergusson II
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
European Trade

The United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944-1951.

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Chiarella Esposito ◽  
Federico Romero ◽  
Harvey Fergusson II
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
European Trade

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelton Stromquist ◽  
Greg Patmore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Impact

Comparative history provides an opportunity for scholars to move beyond national boundaries and reflect on their own societies in new light. But such comparisons are not always straightforward. While both Australia and the United States have federal governments, the state played a more coercive role against organized labor and radicals in the United States than in Australia. Several factors softened the impact of the state on labor in Australia: a stronger trade union movement, the formation of labor parties, and a political consensus on regulating industrial relations at least until the 1980s. In the United States, unbridled hostility of large corporations toward organized labor governed state policy. Despite these differences, labor in both countries found political space to promote progressive policies and modify the harsh behavior of governments....

Origins of the Political Philosophy of the A. F. of L., 1886–1896

1960 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-518
Author(s):  
Gerald N. Grob
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle West ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
American Working Class

European socialists at the beginning of the twentieth century often expressed amazement at the fact that the United States, although one of the most advanced industrial nations in the world, also had one of the weakest socialist movements, as well as a trade union movement bent on avoiding any hard and fast political commitments. Yet, only a few short years before, it appeared as though the American working class had at last arrived at political maturity and was putting its potential voting strength to good advantage. In the elections of 1886, for example, labor tickets in the Northeast and Middle West polled substantial proportions of the vote and won some startling victories. In New York City, Henry George, running with labor and socialist backing, lost out in his race for mayor by only 22,000 votes, while in Chicago and Milwaukee a number of labor candidates swept to victory.

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