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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.
Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA); Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU); American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM/CFM); Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union (BCTGM)
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 group functions as an umbrella organization for the retiree divisions of Canadian trade unions, although individual retirees and their spouses can also join directly. [4] The organizational structure includes in provincial, territorial, and regional councils which coordinate with the broader labour movement. [1]
Conventions are held every three years. A union with 1000 or less members is entitled to one delegate. Another delegate is added after each increment of 500 members. Many Canadian labour organizations have, at their own conventions, established policies, by-laws or constitutions requiring local unions to affiliate to the CLC. [citation needed]
Saskatchewan Government and General Employees' Union (SGEU) The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees was a member of NUPGE until 2001 when it was suspended for trying to take members from another union. Then in 2006 the AUPE decided to disaffiliate from the NUPGE and by extension the Canadian Labour Congress and Alberta Federation of Labour.
Unifor is a Canadian general trade union founded in 2013 as a merger of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions. It consists of 310,000 workers,and associate members in industries including manufacturing, media, aviation, forestry and fishing, [1] making it the largest private sector union in Canada.
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 ...