Emile Gosselin.
1958.
Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 13, No. 3 (JULY 1958), pages 333-336 Univeristy of Laval.
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The text analyzes the dispute which culminated in a strike involving the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and the Canadian Pacific Railway. It deals with the complex problems of technological change in a continent-wide economic setting, and suggests structural modifications of the unions concerned in order to adequately cope.

Leslie Ehrlich and Bob Russell.
2003.
Labour Le Travail 51 pages 115–152.
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Trade unions have dealt with the thorny issue of layoffs since their formation, but relatively little has been written on the topic of union strategies for surviving large-scale redundancies. This paper examines these strategies in an industry that is all too familiar with massive layoffs, railroading. Following their defeat in acquiring a major role in determining issues of technological change, railway unions focused on winning employment security provisions in their contracts.