Anyone who receives a salary from an employer is unionizable (s. 3 of the Quebec Labour Code). Part-time, contingent, casual, temporary and on-call employees, as well as those people who are often mistakenly qualified as “self-employed” can join a Union. On the other hand, employees who represent their employers in their dealings with the staff, that is, those acting at the management level (e.g., foremen and forewomen), are not unionizable. It must be recognized, however, that merely having a title means nothing if employees with such titles are not actually given the power to hire or discipline employees under their supervision.
