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Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists; British Columbia Teachers' Federation; Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions; 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
The Council of Canadian Unions was founded in 1969 by militant labour organizers Madeleine Parent and Kent Rowley. The pair sought to establish a democratic, independent Canadian labour movement free of the influence of American-based international unions. At the July 1973 convention, the organization took its present name.
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA) Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Seafarers International Union of North America (SIU) Seafarers' International Union of Canada; Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Workers United Canada Council ...
The Construction, Maintenance and Allied Workers Canada (CMAW) is a construction trade union headquartered in Vancouver. The purpose of the CMAW is to negotiate pay and work conditions on behalf of its 8,000 members in British Columbia and Alberta. It is affiliated with the independent Confederation of Canadian Unions.
The Communication Workers of Canada (CWC) was a trade union, mostly representing telephone workers in Canada. The union originated as the Canadian Communication Workers' Council, a division of the Communications Workers of America, founded in 1967. In 1972, it broke away from its parent union, to become the independent Communication Workers of ...
Canada’s two major freight railroads have shut their operations, according to management of the two companies, locking out 9,000 members of the Teamsters union who operate the trains and dealing ...
He helped the Trades and Labour Congress with money and organizers, and by 1902. At the 1902 TLC conference in Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario, under the influence of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and its unions in Canada, the Knights along with the purely Canadian unions were banned from membership. The AFL came to dominate the Canadian ...
Madeleine Parent (June 23, 1918 – March 12, 2012) was a Canadian labour, feminist and aboriginal rights activist. [1] [2] Her achievements included her work in establishing the Canadian Textile and Chemical Union and the Confederation of Canadian Unions alongside her partner and fellow trade unionist Kent Rowley.