Case History of the FTQ's Social Stewards Network: A Unique Experiment in Union Peer Support for Mental Health in Workplaces in Quebec, Canada

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Labor Studies Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-17 DOI:10.1177/0160449X231163533

Mélanie Dufour-Poirier, Francine D’Ortun

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Abstract

This article summarizes 10 years of research on an alternative actor providing peer support in Quebec workplaces since 1983: the Quebec Federation of Labor's Union Social Stewards Peer Support Network. Such work fills the gap in research on unions’ capacity to act with respect to workplace mental health and take collective control of preventing its injuries. Data were collated through 12 discussions (120-min) groups and some 60 semi-structured individual (90-min) interviews. Our findings highlight the importance of local unionism in maintaining workplace mental health. They also reiterate unions’ need to consider mental health injuries in the workplace as opportunities for reconstructing their strategies so as to rethink work and help institute a truly preventive strategy involving all stakeholders.

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FTQ社会管家网络的案例历史：加拿大魁北克工作场所工会同伴心理健康支持的一项独特实验

本文总结了自1983年以来10年来关于在魁北克工作场所提供同伴支持的替代行为者的研究：魁北克劳工联合会社会管家同伴支持网络。这项工作填补了关于工会在工作场所心理健康方面采取行动和集体控制防止其伤害的能力的研究空白。数据通过12个讨论（120分钟）小组和大约60个半结构化个人（90分钟）访谈进行整理。我们的研究结果强调了地方工会主义在维护工作场所心理健康方面的重要性。他们还重申，工会需要将工作场所的心理健康伤害视为重建战略的机会，以便重新思考工作，并帮助制定一项真正的预防战略，让所有利益相关者都参与进来。

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Labor Studies Journal Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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期刊介绍： The Labor Studies Journal is the official journal of the United Association for Labor Education and is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing research on work, workers, labor organizations, and labor studies and worker education in the US and internationally. The Journal is interested in manuscripts using a diversity of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, directed at a general audience including union, university, and community based labor educators, labor activists and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. As a multi-disciplinary journal, manuscripts should be directed at a general audience, and care should be taken to make methods, especially highly quantitative ones, accessible to a general reader.