Four days of talks between UFCW Canada and Loblaw Companies Ltd. wound up on September 11 with some progress on key issues but no settlement in the prolonged negotiations that have been underway since April.
UFCW Canada activists came out in full force on September 6 to join working families at Labour Day parades, picnics and other community events.
Since dedicating themselves to greater collaboration through the Eastern Provinces Council (EPC), four UFCW Canada local unions in the Atlantic region are leading the way in organizing workers throughout the Maritimes and Prince Edward Island in particular.
Over 160 UFCW Canada activists, friends and supporters teed off for cancer research on July 29 as part of a fundraising effort that swung up $25,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC).
UFCW Canada has added another year of success to its fun-filled tradition of participating in Toronto’s Caribana festival.
UFCW Canada recently made a series of staff changes and expansions to further support the National Office and local unions in achieving the 2018 growth target, which calls on all members, officers and staff to combine their efforts to help 240,000 non-organized workers join the union over the next eight years.
Thousands UFCW Canada members, environmentalists, human rights advocates and other members of the progressive movement marched through the streets of downtown Toronto on June 26 to protest the pro-corporate, anti-family actions and policies of the G2O leaders, who were simultaneously meeting in the city mere blocks from the massive demonstration.
About 70 migrant and temporary workers at a Quebec horticultural greenhouse have ratified a first-collective agreement that guarantees they are first in line when workers are hired to return the following season.
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