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Our Constitution
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The purposes of this Federation are:
- To support the principles and policies of the Canadian Labour Congress.
- To promote the interests of its affiliates and generally to advance the economic and social welfare of the workers of British Columbia.
- (a) To assist affiliated organizations in extending the benefits of mutual assistance and collective bargaining to workers;
(b) To assist, wherever possible, in the organization of the unorganized into unions for their mutual aid, protection and advancement, giving recognition to the principle that both craft and industrial unions are appropriate, equal and necessary as methods of union organization. - To encourage all workers without regard to race, creed, colour, sec or national origin to share in the full benefits of union organization.
- To secure provincial legislation which will safeguard and promote the principle of free collective bargaining, the rights of workers, and the security and welfare of all people.
- To promote and strengthen our democratic institutions, to secure full recognition and enjoyment of the rights and liberties to which we are justly entitled, and to preserve and perpetuate the cherished traditions of our democracy.
- To promote the cause of peace and freedom in the world and to assist and cooperate with free democratic labour movements throughout the world.
- To aid and encourage the sale and use of union-made goods and union services through the use of the union label and other symbols; to promote the labour press and other means of furthering the education of the labour movement.
- To protect the labour movement from all corrupt influences and from the undermining effects of all totalitarian agencies which are opposed to the basic principles of democracy and free and democratic unionism
- To preserve the independence of the labour movement from political control, to encourage workers to vote, to exercise their full rights of responsibilities of citizenship and to perform their rightful part in the political life of the municipal, provincial and federal governments. To promote and develop action in the political field and to support the legislative program of the Canadian Labour Congress.
