Michel Chartrand (1916–2010) was a Canadian trade union leader from Quebec.
The Centrale des syndicats du Québec or CSQ is the third biggest trade union in Quebec, Canada, by membership.
The Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), is the second largest trade union federation in Quebec by membership.
The Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec, or FTQ, is the largest labour federation in Quebec in terms of its membership. It has over 500,000 members, who account for 44% of the unionised workers in Quebec. This ratio is 60% in the private sector, in which most members work. It also has many members in government agencies.
François-Philippe Brais, was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Jean Doré was a Canadian politician and mayor of the City of Montreal, Quebec.
Monique Richard is a Quebec politician. She is a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the district of Marguerite-D'Youville. She was elected in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Parti Québécois and served as president of that party from 2005 to 2008.
The SPQ Libre! or Syndicalistes et progressistes pour un Québec libre! is a political club that until March 2010 operated within the Parti Québécois. Its president is former labour union leader Marc Laviolette.
Mouvement Québec français (MQF) is an umbrella group of organisations in favour of the preservation and defence of the French language in Quebec, Canada.
Marjolain Dufour is a former politician in Canada, who was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the electoral district of René-Lévesque in the Côte-Nord region, from 2003 to 2015.
Kathleen Weil is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party and a provincial cabinet minister.
The Congress of Democratic Trade Unions is a national trade union centre in Quebec formed on 8 June 1972 in response to a split within the Confederation of National Trade Unions Confédération des syndicats nationaux, CSN). It is the smallest of the four labour centres in Quebec, with about 4% of the union membership in the province.
Yvette Boucher Rousseau was a Quebec trade unionist, feminist and member of the Senate of Canada.
The Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) party ran a full slate of 125 candidates in the 2008 provincial election and elected seven members to emerge as the third-largest party in the legislature.
Jean-Paul Hétu was a Quebec trade unionist.
Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet is a Canadian anthropologist, unionist, and politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Hochelaga as a member of the New Democratic Party. Since November 2015, she is also the NDP's Whip.
Partenaires pour la souveraineté was a Quebec sovereigntist organization that existed in the mid-to-late 1990s. It was an umbrella group of several high-profile organizations, including Quebec labour unions and other pre-existing sovereigntist groups.
Michel Bourdon was a union leader, journalist, and politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. During the 1970s, he played a major role in exposing corrupt practices in Quebec's construction industry. He later served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1989 to 1996 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ).
Marcel Pepin was a trade unionist in Quebec, Canada. He was the president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux from 1965 until 1976.
Huguette Plamondon was a trade unionist in Quebec, Canada. A trailblazer and leader in the Quebec, Canadian and international labour movements, she dedicated the bulk of her efforts to representing the United Packinghouse Workers of America and then the United Food and Commercial Workers, after the UPWA merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in 1979 to create the UFCW. She also served as a vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress from 1956 until 1988.
