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Forestry workers to join new union
Two unions representing Canada's auto, energy, forestry, media and telecommunications workers merged Monday to form the nation's largest private-sector union.
October 16, 2012 By John Tenpenny
Members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) voted in favor of uniting with the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW), whose members had already agreed to the merger in August.
Their combined 300,000 members in 22 sectors across Canada marks the single largest coming together of two private-sector unions in Canadian history. A new name, however, has not yet been decided.
“With this new union we are sending out a clear message that labor is ready to do what is necessary to take on governments and employers who would like nothing better than to see us disappear,” said CEP national president Dave Coles.
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