Local 26 of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada have created an online petition to protect education funding in rural areas in British Columbia. PPWC Local 26 includes workers at Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC. Go to PPWC Local 26 website The union is calling on Amrik Virk, BC’s Minister of Advanced Education, to […]
A month after Local 2 of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada voted to join the Confederation of Canadian Unions, Local 8 has voted unanimously to affiliate to the CCU. Headquartered in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Local 8 has been a proud member of the PPWC since 1967 after breaking away from the International union. […]
For decades, labour unions have struggled for the rights of working people in Canada and around the world, and have fought for higher wages, better working conditions, superior health and safety standards, stronger pensions and workplaces free from harassment and discrimination. In other words, they fought for FAIRNESS. The Canadian Labour Congress holds a video […]
A new “Together Fairness Works” television ad has been produced and is now airing online and throughout Canada. It features the classic song “Lean on Me,” originally written by Bill Withers, and highlights some of the most urgent issues currently being fought for by the labour movement, including gender equality, pensions, community services and diversity. […]
By CCU President John Hanrahan In suspending the temporary foreign worker program in the fast food sector, the federal Conservatives have finally admitted what the labour movement, Canadians, and migrant workers have known for years. The temporary foreign worker program is broken. What the government still stubbornly refuses to admit is that the basic ideology […]
We are very happy to announce that the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers Local 2, based in Crofton, British Columbia, has just voted to join the Confederation of Canadian Unions. PPWC Local 2 represents 431 hard working men and women at Catalyst Paper Crofton Division. “It is with great pride that the Confederation of Canadian Unions […]
The Confederation of Canadian Unions calls on the Government of Nova Scotia to repeal Bill 37. It is our organization’s view that this draconian legislation – which effectively removes the right to strike from 35,000 workers in the province – is in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The bill undermines the […]
Ontario Conservative Party Leader Tim Hudak promises that if he’s elected, he will create jobs and increase economic growth. The problem is that the Opposition Leader’s ideas aren’t new or revolutionary. They are simply a ramped-up, streamlined extension of the tired, old conservative economic ideology that has caused Ontario’s economic problems in the first place […]
The Confederation of Canadian Unions celebrates International Women’s Day, and remembers our founder, Madeline Parent, who was an original member of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. As the first labour federation in Canada to call for equal pay for work of equal value, the CCU pledges to continue to support and […]
On February 25, 2014, a general strike was held in South Korea to protest the anti-union attacks of the Park Guen-hye government. In the past year alone, the Korean government has engaged in the following attacks against the country’s union movement: • The de-registering of the teachers union • The prohibiting of the registration of […]