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Canada's collective agreement is a CBA with teeth and a dues default
About 30% of Canadian employees are covered: three times the U.S. rate. The document is usually called a collective agreement (or convention collective in Québec). Rand-formula checkoff is normal. First-contract arbitration exists in several jurisdictions. We operate here, including a Canadian data-residency option.
Federal or provincial?
Most private-sector bargaining is provincial. Banks, telecom, interprovincial transport, and some Crown work sit under the Canada Labour Code. Public sector has its own statutes. Always read which board certified the unit before you copy a clause from another province.
What is different from a U.S. CBA
- Rand formula vs right-to-work: dues from the whole unit are the Canadian baseline, not the exception.
- First-agreement arbitration in several provinces, so a first contract can be imposed rather than struck forever.
- Term freeze during renewal bargaining is typically statutory, not just NLRB status-quo doctrine.
- Negotech is a real public full-text database. U.S. OLMS is a file cabinet by comparison. See CBA database.
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