Canadian Chemical Workers' Union

The Canadian Chemical Workers' Union (CCWU) was a trade union in Canada.

The union was established in 1975 by 30 Canadian locals, formerly affiliated to the International Chemical Workers' Union. On formation, it had 2,825 members.[1]

In 1976, women working as clerks in the Bank of Nova Scotia and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce wished to unionise. One was married to a CCWU steward, and the recent formation of the CCWU gave it a high profile. As a result, the union took them into membership, but the following year instead assisted them in forming the Canadian Union of Bank Employees.[2]

The union grew steadily, and by 1980, it had 7,214 members in 56 locals, led by Kenneth V. Rogers.[3] That year, it merged with the Canadian district of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union and some directly chartered local unions in Quebec, to form the Energy and Chemical Workers Union.[4]

References
  1. The Current Industrial Relations Scene in Canada. Industrial Relations Centre. 1988.
  2. Shilton Lennon, Elizabeth (August 1980). "Organizing the Unorganized: Unionization in the Charted Banks of Canada". Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 18 (2). Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  3. Annual Report of the Labour Organizations in Canada. Ottawa: Government of Canada. 1980. ISBN 0660506378.
  4. Wayne Roberts (1990). Cracking the Canadian Formula: The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union. Toronto: Between the Lines. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-921284-30-7.
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