ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the issue of autonomy for the Canadian labor movement and with specific Quebec influences over evolution in that domain. Quebec trade unions in general are very reluctant to reopen collective agreements in order to postpone or even to drop wage increases and other benefits for which they had already bargained. The impacts of Quebec upon United States (US)-Canadian union phenomena have been both unique and influential in more respects than might be assumed by Quebec's proportion of total Canadian union membership. The first model treats Canadians and US union members no differently and makes few provisions for specifically Canadian issues. The Canadian Congress of Labor (CLC) resulted from the 1956 merger of the Trades and Labor Congress and the CCL, a merger linked with that of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations the year before in the US
