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SEIU Healthcare
SEIU Healthcare is a Canadian trade union representing more than 60,000 workers in Ontario, Ontario, Canada. Through Collective Bargaining, collective bargaining, the union represents workers in hospitals, home care, nursing and retirement homes, and community services. The union has been active in Ontario for over 70 years. SEIU Healthcare is distinct from SEIU Local 2 Canada, albeit both SEIU Healthcare and Local 2 are affiliated with Service Employees International Union, SEIU. After several years of pressure from its parent union SEIU and its campaign to restructure including merging eight Canadian SEIU Local union, locals into a mega Local 1. Instead, The merger was mired with controversy, with 8 SEIU locals representing 30,000 members (half of SEIU members in Ontario) voting to disaffiliate from the SEIU and join the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) instead. SEIU responded by placing six of the locals under trusteeship, and prevented them from transferring en masse. CAW respon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |