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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.
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.
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
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)
After losing a strike with AT&T in 1947, the federation led by Joseph A. Beirne, [5] reorganized as CWA, a truly national union, which affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1949. The union's Canadian members split away in 1972, forming the Communication Workers of Canada. [6]
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. The first meeting was called by the Toronto Trades Council and the Knights of Labor. It attracted mainly Toronto ...
Formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1964, it was a breakaway from the International Molders and Foundry Workers Union of North America. The Canadian Electrical Workers Union merged into CAIMAW in 1969. In 1971, the union joined the left-wing Council of Canadian Unions, which became the Confederation of Canadian Unions in 1973. CAIMAW was part of ...
When negotiations failed between the Common Front and the Liberal government, the unions launched the largest general strike in Canadian history. When the strike's leaders were jailed for defying orders to return to work, the strike lost momentum and the Common Front broke apart. [3] The CSN first formally supported Quebec sovereignty in May 1990.