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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.
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
It was founded at the initiative of the Toronto Trades and Labour Council and the Knights of Labor. It was the third attempt at a national labour federation to be formed in Canada: it succeeded the Canadian Labour Union which existed from 1873 to 1877 and the Canadian Labour Congress which held only one conference in 1881.
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)
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is a Canadian trade union. Taken in total it is the second largest union in Canada . Most of its 425,000 members work in the provincial public service sector.
He was the first Canadian to hold the post. White was the chair of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council. White was also the chair of the Human and Trade Union Rights Committee of the 126 million-member International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the largest trade union body in the world.
The Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL; French: Congrès canadien du travail) was a trade union federation in Canada. Affiliated with the United States–based Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). It was founded in 1940 and merged with Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) to form the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in 1956.
The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (French: Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated.