Ending Discrimination

Canada’s unions have a role to play in promoting fairness, equality and freedom from violence for all workers, regardless of age, race, religion, ability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, or sexuality. As unions we can help to educate and empower our members so that all workplaces are welcoming and inclusive.

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Indigenous Rights and Justice Resource Centre

This National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, learn how you can take action using our Indigenous Rights and Justice Resource Centre. Canada’s colonial history and its ongoing impacts have resulted in unions neglecting to fight for the rights and needs of Indigenous workers. Indigenous workers want and deserve the same things as all workers: safe work, decent wages and to…

Doing Things Differently: A Disability Rights At Work Handbook

This guide is designed for trade union leaders, union staff representatives, local executive, committee members and shop stewards. The handbook provides an overview of disability rights issues in Canada, with a specific focus on advancements and challenges in workplaces and in the union movement. This includes a comprehensive guide on the duty to accommodate, a checklist for organizing accessible events,…

Islamophobia at Work

In recent years we have seen growing mistrust and demonization of Muslims around the world. Canada’s unions have a responsibility to understand, confront and interrupt racism and discrimination in our workplaces, organizations and communities.

LGBTQ2SI Collective Bargaining Guide

Collective agreements need to meet the needs of all our members. This 2015 guide will provide you with tools to craft collective agreement language that promotes the rights of members belonging to the LGBTQ2SI community.

Workers in Transition Guide

A guide designed for trade union leaders, union staff representatives, local executive, committee members and shop stewards. We all have a role to play to better protect the rights of our trans members and ensure they have the support they need in our workplaces, in our unions and in our communities.

Workers in Canada are pushing back against attacks on DEI policies

March 21, 2025

This International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Canada’s unions reaffirm their commitment to…

Abject failure: Canada’s would-be human rights watchdog leaves Bangladeshi garment workers languishing in poverty

March 12, 2025

In many Bangladeshi garment factories, the women and men who make clothes for export around…

BHM 2025: Join Canada’s unions in advancing racial and economic justice for Black workers

February 1, 2025

Canada’s unions are marking Black History Month by highlighting the crucial role unions play in…