Posters and application packages for this year’s UFCW Canada National Council Beggs-Dowling-Mathieu (BDM) scholarships program have recently been sent to local unions, promoting the $18,000 that is available to members and their families each year for eligible post-secondary education.
More than a dozen union stewards from six workplaces in the Windsor, Ont., area received newly-updated training from the UFCW Canada National Office recently.
A campaign backed by UFCW activists from both sides of the Canada-U.S. border was in full force in Vancouver recently, where the U.S. multinational grocery chain Whole Foods held its annual shareholders’ meeting on March 8.
The spirit of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver burns brightly for a number of UFCW Canada members, with the recent cross-country torch relay including several participants from our ranks.
On Feb. 28, UFCW Canada joins members and other labour groups around the world to recognize RSI Awareness Day, a day of education about the dangers to workers of Repetitive Strain Injuries, or RSIs.
UFCW Canada added international profile to its campaign to achieve collective bargaining rights for Ontario’s
agriculture workers when, on March 23, it filed a formal complaint with the International Labour Organization
(ILO), based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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