The percent of the workforce that is unionized has remained relatively stable and workers' wages have continued to increase along with productivity. Canadian workers enjoy a much more labor friendly environment when it comes to organizing a union.
Some provinces have, or have had, card check recognition.
For many years Canadian labor law has worked to protect the rights of workers who are attempting to form a union. However, in recent years the election of right-wing governments in several provinces has led to changes in the law that are making it more difficult to organize there as well. Because the percentage of workers able to bargain for wage and benefit increases has remained high. There has not been the strong downward pressure on wages that the decline in the number of union workers has caused in the United States.