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This is a list of trade unions in Canada, broken down by affiliation. [1] Canadian Labour Congress ... "Highlights in Canadian labour history" CBC News
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)
By 1950, the Canadian Congress of Labour had become a federation of unions which, to a greater or lesser extent, all supported the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. [citation needed] With the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada–Canadian Congress of Labour merger complete in 1956, a further step was taken.
First central union body in Canada; 1872- Nine Hour Movement - labour activists call for nine-hour day and 54-hour workweek.Origins of Labour Day; 1872 - March 25, The Toronto Typographical Union goes on strike against their employer, the editor of The Globe, Liberal Party leader George Brown, demanding a nine-hour workday. Union activity then ...
Unions from western Canada were significantly more radical than those in the East, and believed the Eastern unions were impeding the progress of the labour movement. The Western Labour Conference voted on and passed numerous resolutions that had been voted down at the national conference of the Trades and Labour Congress in Quebec during ...
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.
Trade unions in Canada by province or territory (9 C) + Canadian trade unionists (20 C, 10 P) C. Canadian Congress of Labour (1 C, 2 P) ... Canadian Labour Union;
The Canadian Labour Union (1872 – 1878) was the short-lived first attempt at a national central organization [1] to represent labour unions in Canada. It was founded in Toronto, Ontario on September 23, 1873, [2] by 46 local unions. It could not be considered a national body as only Ontario-based unions participated.