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REPORIG LABOURRIGHTSINCANADA The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights The new Foundationis intendedto promotelabour rightsinCanada and to encourage ratification ofkey ILOConventions DEREK FUDGE isNational Director of Policy Development for NUPGE in Ottawa For more information on NUPGE's Labour Rights are Human Rights campaign go to www.labowrfghts.ca and if you would like to subscribe to NUPGE's Labour Rights are Human Rights monthly ebulletin , e-mail national@nupge.ca The CCFLR') devoted Canadian was to promoting created Foundation to labour be for a national Labour rights Rights as voice an CCFLR')was createdto be a national voice devotedto promoting labourrights as an important means to strengthening democracy, equality and economicprosperity in Canadaand internationally. Thekeyobjectives theFoundation hasestablished foritself areto: ■ creategreater publicawarenessand understanding oflabourrights as a keycritical component ofhumanrights; ■ buildeffective political momentum and public support forprogressive labourlaw reform; ■ promote fundamental labourstandards in Canadathatenhanceunionorganising; ■ providea critical voiceagainst anyfuture regressive labourlaw beingcontemplated or introduced bya government inCanada; ■ offer coordination on legalchallenges to labourlawswitha viewto strategically movinglabourrights ahead inCanada; ■ promote Canada'scommitments to internationallabourand humanrights standards of theInternational LabourOrganisation (ILO) and monitor thelevelofcompliance tothe standards bythefederal aflďpmvihciárgovernments ; and ■ encourage theGovernment ofCanadato ratifykeyConventions oftheILO. The Foundation is runby a Boardof Directors madeup ofwell-respected humanrights activists, progressivelabour relations academics and union-side labourlawyers.Current members of theBoardincludelabourlawscholar Judy Fudge fromthe University of VictoriaLaw School, British Columbia; well-known labourlawyer Paul Cavalluzzo, whohasledthefight for therights of migrant workersall the way to the Supreme Courtof Canada; Nathaliedes Rossiers, General Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association;and Drew Plaxton,Chair of the CanadianAssociation ofLabourLawyers. NUPGENational President JamesClancynotes that hisunionwouldliketheFoundation tobe a forum forthebroaderlabourrights community. "Wehope CFLRwillprovide an independent and supportivevoice for progressivelabour law reform and willpromote itsworktothebroader labourrights communities - unionsand other labourorganisations, labourrelations programs within Canadianuniversities andcolleges,labour lawschoolsandlegalfirms andother progressive think tanks". Clancyadded,"we arefortunate to havesomeofthemostprogressive and brightest mindson labourrights in Canada serveon the BoardofDirectors oftheFoundation". CFLR held its inauguralmeetingin May in Toronto.Besidesproviding BoardMembers the opportunity to discusscurrent and pendingconstitutional labourlawcasesinCanadawhichthey are involvedwith,themeeting focusedon two priority agendaitems. CFLRBoard memberPaul Cavalluzzo,Senior Partner with the Toronto-based law firm Cavalluzzo,Hayes,Shilton, Mclntyre & Cornish LLP, provided an overview ofthearguments presentedattheSupreme Court ofCanadaCSC COin the Fraserv. Ontanocase. This case has been ongoing in Canada for over a decade and involvesthedenialof theright to join a union andbargain collectively toagricultural workers in theprovince ofOntario. The case was heardin Canada'sSupremeCourtin December2009and a decisionis pending.Cavalluzzohas been the lead unioncounselforthecase. The outcomeof thiscase is being watched closelyby theCanadianlabourmovement with theexpectation that itwillbuilduponthehistoric June 2007 Supreme Court'sdecision (Health Services and Support - FacilitiesSubsector Bargaining Assn. v. BritishColumbia) where Canada'stopjusticesruledthattheright to collectivebargaining is a constitutional right of all Canadians. Thesecondkeyitem on theagendawas a presentation by UK labour lawyer Marcus Pilgerstorfer, a barrister at Old SquareChambers in London.Pilgerstorfer spoke on theextent to which the European Courtof Human Rights CEctHR')has recognised theright to strike as a component partofArticle 11 (theright to freedomofassociation ) oftheEuropeanConvention on HumanRights and Fundamental Freedoms. He focusedon theDemirand Baykarav.Turkey case as wellas other recent Europeancase law. The Strasbourg Court's jurisprudence has often been comparedwiththepositiontakenby the Supreme Court ofCanadaintheBritish Columbia health workers case. CFLR'sprimeinterest in hearingabout these cases was consideration ofwhatappearstobe a convergence in Canada and Europe courtson interpreting FreedomofAssociation through the applicationof international law. A majorcommonality betweenthetwocourtsis thefactthat both the SCC and the EctHRdeveloped and applieda restricted interpretation offreedom of association intheir earlier case lawandhavenow reversed jurisprudence witha muchmorewider interpretation offreedom ofassociation, basedin parton theapplication ofinternational standards through theILO. The nextmeeting oftheFoundation willtake place in Octoberof thisyearwherethe CFLR Boardwillbegintoconsider building thecase for theprotection ofmigrant workers' rights around theequality section (section15)oftheCanadian Charter ofHumanRights and Freedoms. INTERNATIONAL union rights Page 28Volume 17Issue 3201 0 ...
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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 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.352 | 0.131 |
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".