Grain and General Services Union works with other like-minded organizations – such as the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress. The following information is reprinted from the Canadian Labour Congress’s FAIRNESS WORKS campaign.

When workers get together and stand up for fairness, they get results. Together, working people have  won decent wages, safer workplaces, fair treatment and benefits like paid vacation time, job training, and insurance coverage for things like glasses, dental care, and medicine that keep them healthy and productive.

They didn’t stop there. What they got at work, they got for everybody else by standing together and demanding more from the people they elected to boards, councils and legislatures. That’s how we all got some of the things most of us take for granted today – minimum wages, statutory holidays, paid vacation time, public health insurance, public pensions, weekends, etc.

Together, working people built Canada’s middle class and created a country with fairness as one of its fundamental values.