The Canadian Auto Workers union and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada formally merged into Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union with more than 300-thousand members. Jerry Dias was elected the first president. In a fiery acceptance speech, Dias said it was time for an end to the erosion of workers' rights. (More than four-thousand people gathered in Toronto for the union's founding convention.)

Date: 2013-08-31
Placeline: TORONTO, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 15 seconds

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