than 60,000 members. It has successfully
negotiated 6,000-plus collective agree-
ments since being founded in 1952. In the
last 65 years, CLAC has established 15
member centres across Ontario, Manito-
ba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and B.C., and
serves 13 industries, including construc-
tion, healthcare and transportation.
CLAC is a significant player in healthcare
in Ontario and represents over 7,000 indi-
viduals working in this sector. In Alberta,
it has a large footprint in the construction
industry, a presence it has been cultivating
since the early 1980s. “It really started to
pick up in the late 1980s and into the 1990s
primarily because there was so much dis-
David Prentice, Provincial Director (B.C.)
Dick Heinen, Executive Director
MARCH 2017
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