The Medium and the " Anti-Union " Message: " Forced Listening " and Captive Audience Meetings in Canadian Labor Law.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Toronto, a few city blocks from the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB), sits a small center dedicated to the work and ideas of Canada’s Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan is most well-known for his work examining communications, and his much quoted aphorism, “the medium is the message.” He argued that both the form and the content of communications are “media,” and the “message” is the “change of . . . pattern the [medium] introduces into human affairs.” The method of communication transmits its own message, which is distinct from that conveyed in the content of communications. The key to understanding the power of communication lies in recognizing the ways in which the forms of communication influence events and perceptions. This is not a paper on communications theory. But McCluhan’s framework provides a useful launching pad from which to commence a review of employer “captive audience meetings” (CAMs) in Canadian labor law. A CAM is an assembly of workers at the behest of their employer, usually occurring during working hours, and with
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.041 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".