Alternative Title: CCL
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establishment of industrial unionism
...next year these CIO unions joined the remnants of the All- Canadian Congress of Labour, which had formed in 1927 on the dual principles of industrial unionism and Canadian nationalism, to create the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) in affiliation with the American CIO. Only during World War II, however, did organizational realities begin to catch up with these superstructural developments....
merger with Trades and Labour Congress of Canada
...“international” unions that are Canadian branches of unions based in the United States. The CLC was formed in 1956 through the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour. At the onset of the 21st century, a majority of the four million unionized workers in English-speaking Canada belonged to unions affiliated with the CLC.