Industrial relations

Articles

• Business Source Complete (EBSCO) - Articles in business and management journals.
• ABI/Inform (Proquest) - Articles in business and management journals.
• Conference Board of Canada - Reports, articles and videos on human resources and industrial relations.
• EconLit - Articles on labour markets, trade unions, labour economics, wages, and more.
• Labordoc (ILO) - Articles on labour and employment in developing and transition countries. Many articles in French and Spanish.

Government Sites & Statistics

• Canada Industrial Relations Board
• Ministère du Travail du Québec (Quebec Ministry of Labour) - Available only in French
• Institut de la statistique - Quebec statistics
• Commission des relations du travail (Quebec) - Available only in French
• Statistics Canada
• US Department of Labor
• National Labor Relations Board (US)
• LABORSTA (ILO) - International labour information and statistics
• SourceOECD - Click the Statistics tab for employment data by region

Labour News

• Canadian Labour Relations & Employment Topics  - Updated monthly. Statistics on working conditions, compensation, a collective bargaining calendar, arbitration abstracts amp; more *NOTE: Works only in Internet Explore
• Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) News
• Canadian Newsstand - Canadian news publications.
• CBCA Complete - Canadian publications, good for local coverage.
• Factiva - International news.
• Repère - French-language articles covering Quebec, Canada and Europe.

Laws, Legislation & Standards

• Industrial Relations Legislation in Canada - Summary charts of federal/provincial industrial relations legislation.
• Canadian Labour Relations & Employment Topics - Canadian federal and provincial legislation, case law, and commentary on topical areas in business and labour relations *NOTE: Works only in Internet Explorer*
• Canadian enviroOSH Legislation - Health, safety and environmental legislation and standards.
• Negotech - Search collective agreements held by HRSDC and settlement reports for all collective agreements covering 500 or more employees.
• CanLII - Canadian and provincial legislation, laws and court/tribunal decisions.
• Labour Spectrum (Canadian Labour Law Library) - Contains law decisions and commentary, including labour arbitration cases and summaries.
• Legal Information Institute - American laws and legislation, made available by Cornell.

Directories of Labour Unions

• Directory of Canadian Labour Organizations - HRSDC
• Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations (2006)
  
• Global Union Links (AFL-CIO)

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Roberts' Dictionary of Industrial Relations (1994)
  
• St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide (2004) - Covers over 300 events in labour history over the last 200 hundred years.

Useful Websites

• Best HR/IR web sites (U of Toronto) - Links to many IR sites on a variety of topics, including labour history, unions & collective agreements.
• SocioSite Industrial Relations Links (U of Amsterdam) - International.