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标题：The Québec case: Is there a secret?
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作者：Mona-Josée Gagnon ; Thomas Collombat
期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2009
卷号：15
出版社：York University
摘要：We could almost say that the "automatic" secret ballot is a non-subject in Qu¨¦bec (and even in the industrial relations textbooks). Trade unions certainly do not favour this procedure even though it is accessible. But employers' organizations have been lobbying in favour of it on a regular basis, and individual employers (e.g. Wal-Mart) use all the opportunities to argue that Quebec's mode of unionisation is not "democratic" because no ballot is held. So the labour movement regularly stands up for the status quo, as a preventive mean of defence. The argument is not original, but Qu¨¦bec trade unionists have experienced both with-and-without ballot procedures of accreditation ¨C and on the basis of experience they prefer the existing system