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Baking the way for Haiti relief

UFCW Canada members at the Maple Leaf Poultry plant in Brampton, Ont., cooked up some good news for Haiti earthquake relief recently.

UFCW Canada leads the way on facebook

Since creating its own profile page less than a year ago, UFCW Canada has become one of the most popular Canadian unions on facebook with more than 1,150 "fans."

UFCW Canada continues Haiti support through Myriam Merlet Feminist Camp fundraiser

Recently, at the University of Ottawa Law School, UFCW Canada was the event sponsor of a fundraiser reception for the Myriam Merlet Feminist International Solidarity Camp, a resource, health, and communications centre for women being established near the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

UFCW Canada joins in call for ‘reality check’ on women’s equality

Women’s and labour groups – including UFCW Canada – have issued a report they say is a “reality check” describing Canada’s lagging performance in achieving women’s equality.

UFCW Canada represented at Copenhagen

The FTQ – Quebec’s central labour body – made its own piece of history when, for the first time, it made a presentation at a United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark last December.

EPC members receive steward and health-and-safety training

About 30 rank-and-file members of UFCW Canada local unions from Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick got together in February for an education program conducted by the union’s Eastern Provinces Council (EPC).

A moving memorial

UFCW Canada members and activists were among more than 300 marchers on Feb. 14 in Calgary to honour the murdered and missing women of southern Alberta.

Climbing to the Summit

UFCW Canada leaders, organizers, and activists are gearing up for next week’s first National Growth Summit in Toronto, which will include a series of growth-focused discussions, workshops, and presentations.

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