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Larry savage and charles smith in unions in court organized labour and the charter of rights and freedoms provide a lively and illuminating account of the evolution of canadian labour law braham dabscheck industrial relations relations industrielles unions in court is a key account of a vital piece of canadian history and is a must read for anyone involved in labour law. Unions in court documents the evolution of the canadian labour movements engagement with the charter demonstrating how and why labour has adopted a controversial charter based legal strategy to challenge and change legislation that restricts union rights. Since the turn of the twenty first century canadian unions have scored a number of important supreme court victories securing constitutional rights to picket bargain collectively and strike unions in court documents the evolution of the canadian labour movements engagement with the charter demonstrating how and why labours long standing distrust of the legal system has given way to . Unions in court is a key account of a vital piece of canadian history and is a must read for anyone involved in labour law it should find its way into public academic courthouse and government libraries and of course the collection of any private firm with a labour department. Larry savage and charles w smith unions in court organized labour and the charter of rights and freedoms vancouver university of british columbia press 2017 the constitutionalization of labour rights in canada is one of the most remarkable and perhaps unexpected developments in the 36 year history of the charter of rights and freedoms