Canadian Auto Workers, CEP join forces to create Canadian mega-union

Canadian Auto Workers, CEP join forces to create Canadian mega-union

(Source: Canadian Press, October 15, 2012)

OTTAWA — A second union approved plans to create Canada’s biggest private sector union in a vote on Monday, promising to revitalize the labor movement with a merger between the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW). Delegates at a CEP convention in Quebec City approved a 45-page blueprint for a new union that will boast more than 300,000 members, leaving representatives of the two unions with the task of naming the new union and determining how it will work.

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