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The Alberta Provincial Government petitioned the Alberta Labour Relations Board and, after the Board ruled that the strike was illegal, filed an Injunction against the Correctional Officers demanding they cease strike actions and return to work. The injunction was ignored and officers have continued striking throughout Saturday and Sunday.
Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union; Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association; Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Canadian Union of Public Employees; Directors Guild of Canada; Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario; National Union of Public and General Employees; National Union of the Canadian Association of University ...
The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is the Alberta provincial trade union federation [3] of the Canadian Labour Congress. It has a membership of approximately 170,000 from 26 affiliated unions. It has a membership of approximately 170,000 from 26 affiliated unions.
Taken in total it is the second largest union in Canada. Most of its 425,000 members work in the provincial public service sector. Its mission is to monitor provincial and federal labour laws and developments as well as analyse restructuring of social programs and public services.
In 1963, independent unions representing civic workers and workers in the broader public sector merged their organizations to form the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, legislative changes allowed employees of the federal and provincial public service to join unions, bringing new members into CLC ...
In 1984, White encouraged the Canadian Membership of the U.A.W. to split away from the American union and form a new and separate entity, the Canadian Auto Workers Union (properly the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada). An important event in the history of the Canadian labour movement, this split ...
In 1907, in Quebec, workers in the textile sector, predominantly Francophone or Jews, organized industrial unions and conducted strikes. [15] 1909 - Alberta provincial election - Charles O'Brien, of the Socialist Party of Canada, elected by coal miners in the Rockies. [16] 1909 - Prince Rupert (BC) - 123 IWW men walked off sewer construction ...
The right of workers to strike and picket against their employer is constitutionally protected in Canada, according to the Supreme Court of Canada's 2015 ruling in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan. The right to strike is an essential part of a meaningful collective bargaining process in our system of labour relations...