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This is a list of trade unions in Canada, broken down by affiliation. [1] ... Alberta Union of Provincial Employees; Alliance des professeures et professeurs de ...
About 240 Amazon workers at a company warehouse in Laval, a Montreal suburb, unionized in May, becoming the first of the tech company’s Canadian warehouses to do so.
AUPE argued that the province's current labour laws – as they affected private-sector employees, public employees and employees not represented by unions – were out-of-date, unfair and inconsistent with international accords on the rights of working people, including declarations signed by the government of Canada.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.
“This is not the way business is done in Canada.” About 240 Amazon workers at a company warehouse in Laval, a Montreal suburb, unionized in May, becoming the first of the tech company’s Canadian warehouses to do so. Amazon challenged the union's right to represent the workers but lost at a provincial labor tribunal in October.
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]
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 right of workers to strike and picket against their employer is constitutionally protected in Canada, according to the Supreme Court of Canada's 2015 ruling in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan. The right to strike is an essential part of a meaningful collective bargaining process in our system of labour relations...