Canadian Mineworkers Union, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 23 relations: Allan MacEachen, Cape Breton Development Corporation, Cape Breton Island, Clinton Creek, Coal, Coal mining, Confederation of Canadian Unions, Mark MacGuigan, Minister of Finance (Canada), Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada), Nationalization, New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Richard Trumka, Sam Church, Strike action, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Trade union, United Mine Workers of America, United Steelworkers, Yukon.

2. 1981 establishments in Nova Scotia
3. 2001 disestablishments in Nova Scotia
4. Breakaway trade unions
5. Cape Breton Island
6. Confederation of Canadian Unions
7. Defunct trade unions in Canada
8. Trade unions established in 1981
9. United Mine Workers of America

Allan MacEachen

Allan Joseph MacEachen (July 6, 1921 – September 12, 2017) was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as a senator and several times as a Cabinet minister.

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Cape Breton Development Corporation

The Cape Breton Development Corporation, or DEVCO, was a Government of Canada Crown corporation.

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Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island (île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Unamaꞌki) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Clinton Creek

Clinton Creek (Hän: Dätl'äkayy juu) is a ghost town in Yukon.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Confederation of Canadian Unions

The Confederation of Canadian Unions (CCU; Confédération des syndicats canadiens) is a national trade union centre, a central labour body of independent unions in Canada.

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Mark MacGuigan

Mark Rudolph MacGuigan (17 February 1931 – 12 January 1998) was a Canadian academic and politician.

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Minister of Finance (Canada)

The minister of finance (ministre des Finances) is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet, who is responsible for overseeing the Department of Finance and presenting the federal government's budget each year.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ministre des Affaires étrangères) is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the Government of Canada's international relations and is the lead minister responsible for Global Affairs Canada, though the minister of international trade leads on trade issues.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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New Waterford, Nova Scotia

New Waterford (Irish language: Port Lairge Ùr) is an urban community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Pierre Trudeau

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.

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Prime Minister of Canada

The prime minister of Canada (premier ministre du Canada) is the head of government of Canada.

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Richard Trumka

Richard Louis Trumka (July 24, 1949 – August 5, 2021) was an American attorney and organized labor leader.

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Sam Church

Samuel Morgan Church, Jr.Hevesi, "Sam Church, Who Led United Mine Workers, Dies at 72," New York Times, July 15, 2009.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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United Mine Workers of America

The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Canadian Mineworkers Union and United Mine Workers of America are mining trade unions.

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United Steelworkers

The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, commonly known as the United Steelworkers (USW), is a general trade union with members across North America.

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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See also

1981 establishments in Nova Scotia

• 53rd General Assembly of Nova Scotia
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Halifax Transit
• Kings County Museum
• Trade Centre Limited

2001 disestablishments in Nova Scotia

• Air Nova
• Atlantic Bowl
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Sydney Steel Corporation

Breakaway trade unions

• Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers
• British Seafarers' Union
• Canadian Association of Industrial Mechanical and Allied Workers
• Canadian Auto Workers
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Canadian Union of Skilled Workers
• Confederation of Trade Unions of Slovenia PERGAM
• Democratic Confederation of Workers of Niger
• Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations
• Free Association of German Trade Unions
• General Union of Workers of Niger
• National Confederation of the Trade-Union Organizations of Ukraine
• Offshore Industry Liaison Committee
• Public and Private Workers of Canada
• Strategic Organizing Center
• Union of Democratic Mineworkers
• Workers' International Industrial Union

Cape Breton Island

• Cabot Trail Relay Race
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Cape Breton County
• Cape Breton Island
• Cape Breton Labour Party
• Cape Breton fiddling
• HMCS Protector
• Lower River Inhabitants, Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia Gaelic Mod
• Pit Pony (novel)
• Port-Toulouse
• Province of Cape Breton Island
• Rise Again (The Rankin Family song)
• SC convoys
• Saints of Big Harbour
• St. Esprit, Nova Scotia
• Tarabish
• The Bishop's Man
• Western moose

Confederation of Canadian Unions

• Canadian Association of Industrial Mechanical and Allied Workers
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Canadian Union of Skilled Workers
• Confederation of Canadian Unions
• Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers
• Kent Rowley
• Madeleine Parent
• Public and Private Workers of Canada

Defunct trade unions in Canada

• Air Canada Pilots Association
• All-Canadian Congress of Labour
• Barbers, Beauticians and Allied Industries International Association
• Boot and Shoe Workers' Union
• Canadian Association of Industrial Mechanical and Allied Workers
• Canadian Auto Workers
• Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees
• Canadian Chemical Workers' Union
• Canadian Food and Allied Workers
• Canadian Labour Union
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Canadian Paperworkers' Union
• Canadian Seamen's Union
• Communication Workers of Canada
• Communications and Electrical Workers of Canada
• Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
• Energy and Chemical Workers Union
• Graphic Arts International Union
• Graphic Communications International Union
• International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America
• International Printing and Graphic Communications Union
• International Union of Electrical Workers
• International Woodworkers of America
• Journeymen Tailors Union
• Lumber Workers Industrial Union
• Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada
• Mine Workers' Union of Canada
• One Big Union (Canada)
• Paving Cutters' Union
• Relief Camp Workers' Union
• Union of Russian Workers
• United Brotherhood of Railway Employees
• United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union
• Vancouver and District Waterfront Workers' Association
• Western Federation of Miners
• Workers' Unity League

Trade unions established in 1981

• All India Bank Officers' Association
• Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers' International Union
• Australian and International Pilots Association
• Black Trade Union of Transnet Workers
• Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Federation of Energy, Resource, Chemical and Related Workers
• Federation of Food and Tobacco
• Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations
• General Workers' Union of South Africa
• ISU (trade union)
• Italian Federation of Bank and Insurance Employees
• Italian Federation of Information and Entertainment Workers
• Mazdoor Kisan Sangram Samiti
• National Federation of Agri-Food and Forestry
• Nepal Independent Hotel Workers Union
• Public Service Union of Namibia
• Services Union (Netherlands)
• The Federation of Electric Power Related Industry Workers' Unions of Japan
• Transport Workers' Union (Netherlands)
• Union syndicale Solidaires
• Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions

United Mine Workers of America

• Act of Vengeance (1986 film)
• Canadian Mineworkers Union
• Colorado Coalfield War
• Harlan County, USA
• History of coal miners
• History of coal mining
• John L. Lewis House
• Ludlow Massacre
• Matewan
• Melmont, Washington
• Mine Workers' Union of Canada
• Miners Institute Building
• Miners for Democracy
• Pikeville Medical Center
• Progressive Miners of America
• South Superior Union Hall
• United Mine Workers of America
• United Mine Workers of America Building
• William Davis Miners' Memorial Day

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Mineworkers_Union