BUSI 1600U Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Canadian Auto Workers, Canadian Union Of Public Employees, United Automobile Workers
17 Jan 2016
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Trade unions in canada: unions illegal until 1872, strike leaders were beaten, jailed, or shot, workers compensation, minimum wage, vacations, holidays, pension plans, and unemployment insurance are all recent developments. The canadian union of public employees (cupe): canada"s largest union, with approximately 590,000 members, represents workers in health care, education, municipalities, transportation, emergency services, and airlines, (most of your professors have to belong to cupe. ) The canadian auto workers (caw): caw was founded after the canadian members of the u. s. -based. United auto workers (uaw) decided to form their own canadian- controlled union: caw is the largest private-sector union in canada, representing. 225,000 workers in all major sectors of the economy. Size of unions in canada: in 2011, unions represent almost 30 percent (approximately 4. 3 million) of all workers , when unions were most powerful, in 1984, they represented almost 42 percent of workers.
