UFCW Canada activists joined other labour allies outside the Loblaw Companies headquarters in Brampton, Ontario to protest the callous treatment of more than 100 UFCW Canada RWDSU members who were thrown out of work with only the absolute in minimum severance pay when Loblaw shut its National Grocers distribution warehouse in Sudbury, Ontario.
Food service workers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan campus in Kelowna, B.C. have overwhelmingly voted “Yes” to certify UFCW Canada Local 247 as their union and bargaining agent.
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board (BCLRB) has upheld its March 2010 decision to certify a UFCW Canada Local 1518 bargaining unit of more than 70 seasonal migrant agriculture workers at Sidhu & Sons Nurseries in the Lower Mainland.
The Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) grows stronger this season with the addition of another new centre — and an expanded outreach agenda to agriculture workers across the country.
UFCW Canada recently joined temporary foreign workers and other social justice activists by showing up at the offices of several southwestern Ontario politicians to demand fair treatment for the country’s most precarious workforce.
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