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Growing up in Las Vegas, I learned very early the lesson of unions and how they fight for worker’s rights. Though my family didn’t work on the glittering Strip or Downtown, my friends had parents who did. When I was in my teens, the Culinary Union struck for a week or so and I helped.

Olivia Chow, CLC President Hassan Yussuff, Unifor President Jerry Dias to speak at Nathan Phillips:

Hundreds and hundreds of Unifor members and their families will gather at Nathan Phillips Square downtown Toronto, before the Labour Day parade begins on Monday, September 1 to take in inspiring speeches and celebrate.

When America was born, there was nothing resembling unions, not as we know them today. It was illegal for workers to strike or prevent others from working. In 1806, a small group of journeyman shoemakers put that to the test and were convicted of criminal conspiracy. The first fledgling union was the New York Workingmen’s Party.