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Transportation workers moving  forward together since 1901

Did you know that the earliest roots of Steelworkers' Local 1976 go back more than a century? Members of what is now Local 1976 were trying to organize in the early 1900's on the Canadian Pacific Railway and their brothers in the US had already formed the Order of Railway Clerks of America. Since our early beginnings, fraught with the danger of economic ruin and physical violence for the brave workers who had a vision of a better life, our union expanded into many sectors of the transportation industry, including trucking, airlines, grainhandling, telecommunications and stevedoring.

    The dawn of a new century saw the curtain rise on another fundamental change:  we came to the realization that massive technological changes had left our members vulnerable. Our members began a two-year process of consultation and fact-finding which led to a decision to join the United Steelworkers, one of Canada's largest unions.