Charity Village� NewsWeek: Cover Story

Charity Village� NewsWeek: Cover Story: "Managing a nonprofit in a collective agreement environment
September 13, 2004
By Louise Chatterton Luchuk

Would it surprise you to learn that 40% of employees working in the nonprofit sector report that they are part of a union or are covered by a collective agreement? This is what the Canadian Public Research Network (CPRN) discovered when it extrapolated data from Statistics Canada's 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey for the report Coping with Change: Human Resource Management in the Nonprofit Sector. Prior to the December 2003 release of the report, little was known about the extent of unionization within the nonprofit sector. "