14-06-2000 FRANCE: Signing by employers, the CFDT and the CFTC of a new unemployment insurance agreement providing for the implementation of the PARE (plan to help return to work). Denounced by FO, the CGT and the CGC, it came into force on January 1, 2001.
14-06-1912 CANADA: Union leaders meet at the Lethbridge Labour Temple to establish the Alberta Federation of Labour. This is the beginning of the Federation’s long struggle for workers’ rights in Alberta. albertalabourhistory.org/alb…
14-06-1872 CANADA: Royal assent is given the Trade Union Act, as promised by the prime minister in April in response to large protests against the arrest of striking Toronto printers on conspiracy charges. The Act states that unions are legal in Canada. rankandfile.ca/the-nine-hour…
AUSTRALIA: Enough is enough: ASU files historic 35% pay increase claim for 300,000 underpaid community and disability workers asu.com.au/ASU_National/Publ…
13-06-1941 FRANCE: 1st convoy of miners from Nord Pas-de-Calais sent to concentration camps in retaliation for their strike. More than 1,400 had already been arrested, shot, decapitated by the guillotine or died under torture in prisons.