Local 832 opens new training centre and union office
UFCW Canada Local 832 recently unveiled an exciting new resource for members in the City of Brandon and the Westman area of Manitoba: a new Training Centre and Union Office.
UFCW Canada Local 832 recently unveiled an exciting new resource for members in the City of Brandon and the Westman area of Manitoba: a new Training Centre and Union Office.
A majority of the 2,500 workers at National Beef’s Dodge City, Kansas, beef slaughter and processing facility voted to join UFCW District Local 2, in an election conducted by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, on Thursday and Friday, November 3 and 4, 2011.
Workers at European Quality Meats and Sausages in the Greater Toronto Area are the newest members of UFCW Canada Local 175. The 55 new members recently voted to certify and join Canada’s largest private-sector union.
More than 300 activists, allies, and UFCW Canada and AWA staff and officers recently gathered in Toronto for the 12th Annual César E. Chávez Black Eagle Awards. The Awards honour long time activists who have carried on the legacy of César Chávez by advancing the cause of justice for agriculture workers.
UFCW Canada members, family members, and social justice partners are free to sign-up for the newest webCampus courses launching in November. All webCampus courses are offered at no cost, and can be taken at your own pace anywhere you have a computer and an online web connection.
Jeff Traeger was elected the new President of UFCW Canada Local 832 on October 24. Elected by the local union's executive board, Brother Traeger is the third full-time President in Local 832’s 73-year history. The former Secretary-Treasurer will replace retiring President Robert Ziegler, who was elected in 2002.
Recently, in the Mexico municipality of Tulcingo de Valle, in the State of Puebla, UFCW Canada shared its advocacy experience of working with migrants in Canada at a "Workshop on Basic Knowledge and Tools on Migration". It was one of series of workshops organized by the Citizens' Observatory on Public Policies Migrant - Puebla.
UFCW Canada young activist members from across Eastern Canada gathered in Memramcook, New Brunswick for the 2011 Atlantic Regional session of the Youth Internship Program (YIP). The fourteen participants — from UFCW Canada Local 1252 in Newfoundland, Local 1288P in New Brunswick and Local 864 in Nova Scotia — got together October 2-7, to learn more about their union and the important role it plays in their workplace and community.
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