- Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
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See also Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol SCEP
CEP/SCEP Full name Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Founded 1992 Members 160,000 (2006)[1] Country Canada Affiliation CLC Key people Dave Coles, president Office location Ottawa, Ontario Website www.cep.ca Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, abbreviated CEP in English and SCEP in French, is a largely private sector labour union with 150,000 members. It was created in 1992 through the merger of three unions - the Canadian Paperworkers Union, the Communication and Electrical Workers of Canada and the Energy and Chemical Workers Union. Other unions have since merged into the CEP. CEP/SCEP is affiliated to the Canadian Labour Congress.
The communications portion of CEP consists of workers from telecommunications (principally Bell Canada), private TV stations, newspapers, commercial print and new media (such as Internet and web design). The large media component of communications (about 20,000 members) joined CEP in 1994 when members of the Canadian wing of NABET joined as well as newspaper members from the Canadian division of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). In 2005 nearly all Canadian members of the American-based Graphics Communications International Union (GCIU) representing newspaper press operators and commercial print workers joined CEP (Quebec GCIU members joined Teamsters Canada). These mergers have made CEP the largest media union in Canada.
The energy portion of CEP consists mainly of Canadian workers in the oil, gas and chemical sectors.
The paperworkers portion of CEP consists of pulp and paper workers in the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
Membership is in flux as the pulp and paper industry in Canada declines and moves offshore. That industry has seen several plant closures affecting thousands of pulp and paper workers across Canada. A Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) imposed vote at the public broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)in 2003, lost 1,800 technicians and camera operators from CEP to the CBC journalists' union Canadian Media Guild (affiliated with the CWA), whose members outnumbered the CEP members at the English-language section of CBC.
However, the 2005 GCIU merger as well as subsequent mergers with the Atlantic Telecommunications Workers Union and forestry workers in Quebec has kept pace with membership declines in other areas.
CEP is an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists.
References
External links
- Official CEP union site
- CEP Local 87M - Composite media local, Toronto based
- CEP Toronto
- CEP Local 27 - Toronto East
- CEP Local 2003 - Ontario Composite, Mississauga based
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AffiliatesPresidents Claude Jodoin (1956–1966) · Donald MacDonald (1967–1974) · Joe Morris (1974–1978) · Dennis McDermott (1978–1986) · Shirley Carr (1986–1992) · Bob White (1992–1999) · Ken Georgetti (1999–present)
See Also Categories:- Canadian Labour Congress
- Trade unions in Canada
- Agriculture and forestry trade unions
- International Federation of Journalists
- Organizations established in 1992
- Canadian organization stubs
- North American trade union stubs
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