Patrick Morin Inc. employees in Quebec join the union, UFCW 1991P!

Montreal – May 13, 2013 – UFCW Canada Local 1991P is very proud to welcome a new group of members from one of Quebec’s leading hardware store chains, called Patrick Morin Inc., who recently chose to join the union and Quebec’s leading voice for workers, UFCW Canada.

The new Patrick Morin members work at the hardware supplier’s main distribution centre in Saint-Paul-de-Joliette, located about 60 kilometres north of Montreal.

“We are very happy and proud to welcome among us the employees at Centre de distribution Patrick Morin inc. as, for the first time in their history, they’ve decided to join the union,” says Local 1991P President Mario Maisonneuve. “By choosing to combine their efforts with our great international organization, these men and women have given themselves more strength and a stronger voice to negotiate with their employer.”

Why UFCW?

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is a leader with its expertise in the retail industry and in the area of food retail. We give our members access to help from a team of business representatives who combine energy, youth and experience in addition to offering specialized service in such fields as the organizing of new members, collective bargaining and legal assistance as well as litigation to the CSST (Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail du Québec, ‘‘Quebec occupational health and safety board’’), not to mention labour education or informative aid.

With its thousands of members working in over forty businesses, UFCW Canada Local 1991P is part of the single largest union in the retail industry and in the area of food retail in Quebec. The organization of which we are part has more than 45,000 members in Quebec, 250,000 in Canada and upwards of 1.3 million on North America. Our members are present in all fields of the food and retail industries as well as in other sectors, such as service jobs, food processing and manufacturing, not to mention technical and professional jobs.