Series consists of files of the Legislation Department and of the Government Employees Department documenting the CLC's relations with government (usually at the federal level) and its efforts to represent the interests of organized workers in such areas as legislation, public policy, programmes, and inquiries such as royal commissions; and its efforts to promote union organization and the right to collective bargaining among government employees.
Major topics include the CLC's annual memorandum to the government of Canada, and other briefs to government; unemployment insurance, the Unemployment Insurance Commission (including appeals cases), pensions, welfare services, and other income security programmes; occupational health and safety, including conferences and relations with health and safety organizations; workers' compensation; labour and collective bargaining legislation; industrial democracy; health services and public health insurance; the human rights movement, including labour human rights committees, human rights commissions and conferences, and non-labour human rights organizations; the status of women; criminology and corrections; government policy in such areas as immigration, housing, poverty, broadcasting, transportation, and taxation; organizations of government employees, such as the Civil Service Federation of Canada, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, postal unions, associations of provincial government employees, and other unions of government employees; issues affecting unionized government employees, such as the right to bargain collectively; barbers' unions; and relations with non-labour organizations with an interest in public and legislative affairs. Included is a collection of memoranda to the government and other briefs and submissions to government by the CLC, its predecessors (the Canadian Congress of Labour, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, and the All-Canadian Congress of Labour), and other labour organizations. Also included are files on provincial federations of labour, municipal labour councils, and affiliated unions, and their legislative concerns; the CLC's Commission on Constitution and Structure; inter-office correspondence; chronological outgoing correspondence files of Andy Andras, who served as director of both departments; the CLC executive council, standing committees, and conventions; conferences; and general administrative matters. The files contain correspondence, minutes, reports, briefs, submissions, proceedings, speeches, publicity material, print matter, and other material.
For other records pertaining to the Legislation Department and Government Employees Department, see also: the Andy Andras Personal Files series; and the Frank Chafe Files series.
Microfilm reels H-42 to H-56, H-72 to H-78, H-82 to H-83, H-86 to H-88, H-133 to H-140, H-265 to H-291, H-468 to H-489, H-498 to H-510, H-513 to H-517, H-519 to H-523, H-527 to H-530, H-558 to H-575, H-578 to H-580, H-582 to H-583, H-605 to H-607, H-673, H-687 to H-727, H-817 to H-821, H-823 to H-829.
