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Canadian Actors' Equity Association; Canadian Football League Players' Association; Canadian Teachers’ Federation; Centrale des syndicats du Québec; Christian Labour Association of Canada; Confédération des syndicats nationaux; Congress of Democratic Trade Unions; Confederation of Canadian Unions; Fédération des travailleurs et ...
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.
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.
The locals had previously been members of the US-based International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers and United Paperworkers' International Union (UPIU). Concern was expressed at the union's establishment by the business-oriented National Post. [2] Two of the leaders who founded the PPWC were Orville Braaten and Angus McPhee.
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]
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)
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 ...
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