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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
Clerical unions began forming in the early 1900s. By 1920, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had issued charters to more than 50 clerical unions. In 1942, the locals banded together to form the International Council of Office Employee Unions. In 1945, this union received a charter from the AFL as the Office Employees International Union.
A second Canadian local formed in Montreal in 1900, and a Vancouver local in 1902. [1] The union joined the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1889. The Panic of 1893 weakened the union significantly, however, and the union's finances collapsed. The AFL revoked the Tin, Sheet Iron and Cornice Workers' charter in 1896, even though many locals ...
The Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA) is a trade union of plasterers and cement masons in the construction industry in the United States and Canada. Members of the union finish interior walls and ceilings of buildings and apply plaster on masonry, metal, and wire lath or ...
It was formed in 1984 but became dormant in 1992 when the government of Saskatchewan disallowed all unions, except for certain trade unions, from representing workers in the construction industry. Local 151 was re-certified in 2010 once the restrictions were struck down by Bill 80.
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 Construction, Maintenance and Allied Workers Canada (CMAW) is a construction trade union headquartered in Vancouver. The purpose of the CMAW is to negotiate pay and work conditions on behalf of its 8,000 members in British Columbia and Alberta. It is affiliated with the independent Confederation of Canadian Unions.