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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.
Walmart Canada is a Canadian retail corporation, discount retailer and the Canadian subsidiary of the U.S.-based multinational retail conglomerate Walmart.Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, it was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company.
Directors Guild of Canada; Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario; National Union of Public and General Employees; National Union of the Canadian Association of University Teachers; Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association; Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation; Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
2005 - Wal-Mart closes its Saguenay, Quebec store, the first store of its brand in Canada in process of being unionized. May 29, 2006 - Toronto Transit Commission workers stage a one-day wildcat strike. 2006 - Ontario province-wide strike of college staff.
The union has also applied for recognition at a dozen other Walmarts and had won a contract with a Walmart store in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. [37] After a couple years of unsuccessful negotiations between the union and Walmart the workers at the store decided to leave the union. [38]
5 affiliated unions: 45,000 [10] International Brotherhood of Teamsters: Food, Laundry room, Cement, Hospitality industry, Pharmaceutical industry, Manufacturing, Restauration, Textile and Clothing, Transports: 6 affiliated unions: 35,000 [10] Public Service Alliance of Canada (AFPC) Public service and Security: 23 affiliated unions: 35,800 [10]
Union reps said 98% of union partners recently voted to protest low wages, staffing issues and benefits. The business operates more than 11,000 stores across the nation, according to Reuters , and ...
Walmart's anti-union policies also extend beyond the United States. The documentary Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, shows one successful unionization of a Walmart store in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada, in 2004, but Walmart closed the store five months later because the company did not approve of the new "business plan" a union would require.