multi-sector, national union, with more
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
David Prentice, Provincial Director (B.C.)
Dick Heinen, Executive Director
MARCH 2017
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