Long-time UFCW Canada activist Brian Williamson has been named to the Ontario Federation of Labour’s Honour Roll, which recognizes the outstanding contributions of distinguished trade unionists by awarding scholarships in their names.
Activists, migrant workers and other community members gathered in Leamington, Ontario, on July 18 to celebrate the first-ever Filipino Agriculture Workers Day.
Activists from UFCW Canada Locals 1869 and 227W recently brought their energy and enthusiasm to an empowering workshop in Winnipeg to improve their skills to better represent members in the workplace.
UFCW Canada is joining forces with its allies in the progressive movement to fight the Harper government’s attack on Employment Equity.
The Harper government’s plan to scrap the mandatory census long-form questionnaire and replace it with a voluntary survey may appeal to the prime minister’s libertarian roots and Tea Party folk, but it is terrible public policy.
UFCW Canada Local 175 has been certified as the bargaining agent for workers at a Maple Leaf Foods processing facility in Mississauga, Ontario.
The UFCW Canada and Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) campaign No More Injustice and Oppression Against Migrants! has prompted the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Canadian employer associations FERME and FARMS to stop demanding an outrageous security payment from Guatemalan migrants.
It began as a so-called “layoff”, turned into a 40-week lockout, and reached the end of the line when on August 13 Calgary-based Nilsson Brothers Inc. told UFCW Canada Local 1400 members that the XL Beef slaughterhouse they worked at in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, will be permanently closed within 90 days.
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