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One reason the answer to, “Who Protects the Worker?” cannot be unions is that most workers are not unionized. In Canada today, the union coverage rate (the percentage of workers covered by a collective agreement) in the private sector is only 15.1 per cent. Among the industries with the lowest union coverage rates are professional, scientific and technical services at 3.4 per cent, and finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing at 8.2 per cent. Does anyone believe lawyers, accountants, engineers, computer systems designers and bankers in Canada are helpless and underpaid workers in need of union protection from their rapacious capitalist employers? If not, it should be clear that unions are not the source of workers’ protection.
