Restraint of Trade and Labour

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1969

Keywords

Anti-Combines Law, Combines Investigation Act, Competition, Unionization

Abstract

Anti-combines law exists to foster and preserve competition in the market place. Labour relations law authorizes the elimination of competition in one of the significant cost areas of productivity, the labour market. This conflict of goals raises a host of important problems. If we assume that the policy favouring competition is a good one do we, by permitting industry-wide unionization and collective bargaining, allow an unjustifiable departure from the more general policy?

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