Labour Law

JD student Josh Mandryk in the Toronto Star - "Bill C-377: An invasion of privacy and attack on dissent"

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

JD student Josh Mandryk has published a commentary in the Toronto Star arguing that the private member's bill C-377 now in front of the House of Commons, which would establish heavy Income Tax disclosure requirements for Trade Unions, is a punitive invasion of privacy ("Bill C-377: An invasion of privacy and attack on dissent," Oct. 18, 2012).

Read the commentary on the Toronto Star website, or below.

The TTC Shutdown

Benjamin Alarie
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The services provided by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) were interrupted for almost the entire day yesterday, May 29th.  This was a major headache for the hundreds of thousands of people who travel on the TTC each day, mostly to work and to school.  The city's residents awoke on Monday morning to news that the TTC was not running.  Most scrambled to find alternate means to get to work or school, relying on car pooling, bicycles, or walking.  Let's examine what the collective cost to the city's residents was, versus the stakes that precipitated the interruption.

Political Strikes are Not Illegal Strikes

Brian Langille
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Last week many newspapers reported on a new development in the protests that have been focussing the world's attention upon Egypt. As the New York Times headline put it, "Protest in Egypt Takes New Turn as Workers Go on Strike". Reporters described how workers in myriad work places had decided to join the protest movement by going on strike. Workers at the Suez Canal, in textile factories, in government departments downed tools, sat in, picketed and otherwise brought normal productive activity to a halt. They did so for the purpose of making common cause with others seeking fundamental political change in their country. 

Labour and the Future of the Egyptian Revolution

Mohammad Fadel
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

ForeignPolicy.com’s Middle East Channel published my latest thoughts on Egypt’s labor movement and its role in Egypt’s future democracy.  The essential argument is that if Egyptians want to establish a successful democracy, they must establish a social democracy along the lines of the Scandinavian countries.  After 20 years of structural adjustment in which the gains from liberalization of trade and privatization of state-owned enterprises were limited to a relatively narrow sector of the Egyptian elite and investments in public goods such as education and health steadily declined, democratic stability will require a strong commitment to redistributionist policies.  Recognition of the rights of independent labor unions in Egypt is an essential step toward achieving this necessary social transformation.

 

JD student Josh Mandryk in the Toronto Star - "Ontario College of Trades a win for skilled tradespeople and consumers"

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

JD student Josh Mandryk has written another commentary in the Toronto Star, "Ontario College of Trades a win for skilled tradespeople and consumers" (August 7, 2012). Mandryk is a summer law student with the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 793.

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website.

James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop (Speaker: Kory Kroft)

The James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series

 presents

Kory Kroft
University of Toronto
Department of Economics

 Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Screening Model

 Wednesday, October 24, 2012
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (room FA2)
84 Queen’s Park

JD student Josh Mandryk in the Toronto Star - "Repealing the Fair Wages Act goes against evidence and workers’ interests"

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

JD student Josh Mandryk has published a commentary in the Toronto Star in response to the federal government repealing the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act, pointing out the benefits of such acts for training and workplace safety ("Repealing the Fair Wages Act goes against evidence and workers’ interests," July 3, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website, or below.

JD student Josh Mandryk in the Toronto Star - "Right-to-work would be wrong for Ontario"

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

JD student Josh Mandryk, who is a summer law student with the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 793, has published a commentary in the Toronto Star arguing against a "right-to-work" private member's bill proposed for the Ontario legislature ("Right-to-work would be wrong for Ontario," May 29, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website.

Prof. Mohammad Fadel - "Labor and the future of the Egyptian revolution"

Thursday, May 12, 2011

In Foreign Policy magazine's online Middle East Channel, Prof. Mohammad Fadel has written a commentary on what the new Egyptian government needs to do to address the needs of striking Egyptian workers and establish long-term economic stability ("Labor and the future of the Egyptian revolution," February 28, 2011).

Read the full article on the Foreign Policy website.