October 2, 2012
To: Members of the CLC Canadian Council
I am pleased to advise you that the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) is no longer a member of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
In 2010, the CLC initiated an application to the ITUC General Council to expel CLAC from membership in the ITUC due to a series of actions that undermined the organizing and negotiating efforts of CLC affiliates. The ITUC General Council suspended CLAC from active membership. CLAC was advised that if their undermining behaviour toward other unions did not change, they could be expelled, but if their behaviour did change, the suspension could have been lifted at the 2016 ITUC Congress.
Rather than changing their behaviour, CLAC decided in September 2012 to leave the ITUC and join the World Organization of Workers, a small international organization of Christian unions.
In solidarity,
Ken Georgetti
President, Canadian Labour Congress