It was Samantha Henry’s first time on strike, and one that made headlines across the country.
“Some people thought the strike would only last a week, a couple of days. And we went into almost five weeks,” said Henry, one of some 3,700 Metro employees in the Toronto area who walked off the job this summer.
Union support is harder to measure in Canada because it's not regularly tracked, but people on the front lines of strikes and those who study labour agree that public sympathy for strikes is stronger than usual here, too. Historically, unions had a negative public image in part because of the disruption strikes can cause, he said. One memorable example is the 2009 strike by City of Toronto workers that notably affected garbage collection.
Months later, when 155,000 federal government workers under the Public Service Alliance of Canada went on strike, an Angus Reid Institute poll showed strong support for almost every union demand, noted Savage.Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said she's also noticed a shift at picket lines and rallies across the country.
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