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Saskatoon and District Labour Council

100 year Project

On May 2, 2009, the Saskatoon and District Labour Council celebrated 100 years of service and solidarity with the working people of Saskatoon and Saskatchewan.

In February 1909, the Saskatoon Trades and Labor Congress (TLC) brought workers together to stand together and to fight for economic justice. In those years, a store clerk worked a 70 hour week for $10.00, a labourer made $2.00 a Day, and a skilled carpenter or painter might make $25.00 for a 50 hour week. The TLC led the way to a better life for all working people.

The TLC and its successor, the Saskatoon and District Labour Council, have been at the forefront of the fight for workers' rights. These fights span the decades - during Saskatoon's Boomtown years, through the 1919 general strike,during the attacks on the unemployed in the 1930's, through the war years and the great organizing drive that followed, through the turmoil of the sixties and the business counter attacks of the seventies and eighties.

What we wish for ourselves we wish for all. From the beginning, the TLC and the SDLC have had representatives on school boards, hospital boards, the Community Chest and the United Way, where today union Campaigns provide over 50 per cent of all employee donations. They have elected members to both city council and to the provincial legislature. SDLC delegates also sit on the boards of charitable associations and social justice organizations.