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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
A question (to anyone): There was a fairly recent ruling in a top Canadian court that considered collective bargaining a right protected by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms*. Is there a similar defense of it under any American document, including, but not limited to, the Constitution?
*The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is to the Canadian Constitution much in the way the Bill of Rights is to the United States Constitution.
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There is no Constitutional right to collective bargaining.
The Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act), enacted in the 1930s, guarantees the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively...but does not apply to the public sector or government employees at any level.