Thank you for the question.
Unionizing is very difficult for workers. It is fraught with anxiety and fear about what the process will do and the disharmony it may cause when employer interference is part of that equation.
Unfortunately, we've seen many regressive governments across the country—provincial and territorial governments—change how workers can unionize by requiring more than a simple signing of union cards and also requiring an additional step by having a follow-up vote.
When we elect politicians, we ask once for people's voice on that. When we choose to become unionized, it's often a two-step process across this country, where workers have to make the decision to, first, sign a union card, and then, after a certain period of time, to go and vote. That gives the employer many opportunities to run interference and to provide all kinds of inappropriate context and feedback to those workers, creating a lot of fear and division within that workplace while this process is under way. That is what we see time and time again.
What it's going to take to get more workers unionized is good legislative action requiring simply the signature of a union card and having a majority of those workers choose to actually gain a bargaining opportunity with their employer.