A trade union, is a means of gathering to speak the same voice. To unionize, is to break seclusion to make respect our rights and regulate the problems connected to work

To be part of a union is:

• To be respected;
• Improve our working conditions, our quality of life and those of our families;
• To give us means, like grievance procedure, that permit to defend ourselves against injustice (dismissels, discrimination, harassment and violence);
• To end favouritism an special favours;
• To profit a better safety employment and to make respect our seniority (number; years of service) at the time of promotions, the choice of the schedules and the holidays, the settings to foot and the recalls to work;
• To make obstacle with the precariousness which more particularly strikes the young people and the women.
• To ensure of sedentary, more equitable and more human work conditions while making respect the laws on the health and the occupational safety,  equity in employment and wage equity, etc.
• To receive better wages, to maintain and improve our standard of living;
• To be entitled to improved holidays, special vacation for the parental disease, maternity and responsibilities, a mode group insurances (dental drugs, care, accidents, disease) and a mode of retirement.

The UNIONIZED PEOPLE HAVE FIVE TIMES MORE CHANCES; TO HAVE ACCESS TO A PENSION PLAN AND TWICE MORE TO MODES; INSURANCE (DENTAL HEALTH CARE, CARE, VIE/INVALIDITÉ) THAT NONE UNIONIZED PEOPLE. (CANADA STATISTICS, INVESTIGATION INTO THE DYNAMICS OF WORK AND THE INCOME 2000 IN MARSHALL KATHERINE, THE ADVANTAGES OF EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT AND INCOME IN PROSPECT, 2003)

The hourly wages of a unionized worker is 20,74 $, compared to 16,88 $ for a none unionized worker.(Statistique Canada, Revue chronologique active population 2005, CDROM)

Because their work conditions are better, the trade unionists remain longer for the same employer. Close to one trade unionist out of two has more than ten years of service for the same employer. At the non-unionists, this is one out of five.

Because you also have the right!

TO UNIONIZE, IS TO BE ORGANIZED TO BE RESPECTED

More than 1,2 million Québe  workers have exerted the right to unionize.
Why not you ?

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Hélène Fréchette