Canada: Supreme Court rules that unions can film and photograph workers that cross picket lines

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In a November 15 ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a law from the Alberta province used by the Information and Privacy Commissioner to keep a union from filming and photographing workers crossing a picket line was unconstitutional. (Ref. 130742)

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Within the framework of a strike that lasted 305 days at the Casino Palace in West Edmonton Mall, the local UFCW-TUAC took pictures and made movies of workers crossing the picket line. A sign stated that these images would be uploaded to a dedicated website, which in the end never happened. Several workers filed complaints about the reporting with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, under the province’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) as personal information about

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