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The Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (Quebec Workers Federation), or FTQ, is the most important House of Labour in Quebec according to its membership. It has over 500,000 members, that is 44% unionised workers of Quebec -- this ratio is 60% in the private sector, in which most members work. It has many members also in government agencies and in the municipal sector. As such, members are mostly men. This article describes the Canadian province. ...
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It was created in 1957 out of two very old unions, the Fédération provinciale du travail du Québec (Quebec Labour Provincial Federation) and the Fédération des unions industrielles du Québec (Quebec Industrial Unions Federation), and was mostly developed under presidency of Louis Laberge from 1964 to 1991 with help from American unions that were afraid of seeing industry relocated in Canada. 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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The Federation is not known to be specially politically active, and tend to favour collaboration with employers. Henri Massé is its current president, with René Roy as secretary.
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The Centrale syndicale du Québec (Quebec House of Labour), or CSQ, is the third most important trade union in the Province of Quebec, canada, according to membership. ...
The Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) (English: Confederation of National Labour Unions) (CNTU), is the second largest trade union in the Province of Quebec, Canada, by membership. ...
External link FTQ homepage (http://www.ftq.qc.ca/) (mostly in French) | 
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