Canadian Labour Congress

A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | 2004 | 586 words | Copyright

Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) A trade union emerging in 1956 from a fusion between the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada (est. 1883) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (est. 1940). In 1961, it joined forces with the Cooperative Commonwealth Foundation to found the New Democratic Party, which it continued to support. It is the central organization of English-speaking trade unionists in Canada, representing almost 100 individual unions with a combined membership of around two and a half million members in 2002.

http://www.clc-ctc.ca

Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux

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