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Seventh agriculture unit certified in Quebec

Workers at a vegetable farm and wholesale operation 70 kilometers northeast of Montréal have been certified as the newest TUAC Canada agriculture bargaining unit in Québec. The new members work in Joliette at Produit VegKiss, which grows, packs and ships produce for domestic as well as export markets.

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UFCW Canada honours victims of Christmas Eve scaffold tragedy with We Remember poster

December 24th marks the second anniversary of the Toronto Christmas Eve scaffold tragedy, in which four migrant workers were killed and another seriously injured after the scaffold that was supporting them collapsed. Aleksey Blumberg, Vladimir Korostin, Fayzullo Fazilov, Aleksanders Bondarevs, and Dilshod Marupov were reinforcing and repairing balconies when the platform they were working on snapped in half and plunged them 13 stories to the base of a Toronto apartment building. The accident occurred just as the five men were preparing to go home for the day.

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CFACQ develops new courses for members

When it was created in 2005, CFACQ (Centre de formation de l’alimentation et détail du Québec – the Retail and Food Training Centre of Quebec) had five objectives: to train new workers for the retail and food industry; deliver customized training courses for employers contributing to the education fund; offer courses on safe food handling; and to develop life skills courses for TUAC Canada Local 500 members.

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By the numbers: The growth of household debt in Canada

1.57 Trillion

Canadians’ household debt in the second quarter of 2011, reaching an all-time high this year.

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December 10 - International Human Rights Day

December 10th is celebrated annually as International Human Rights Day. It commemorates that day in 1948 when the United Nations unanimously adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Québec Commission helps migrant agriculture workers learn rights

This year the Québec Labour Standards Commission (CNT) held a conference to determine whether certain aspects of the Labour Standards Act need to be revised. Prior to the conference, the CNT conducted an inquest in 2010 that analyzed the extent to which the Act is being respected by employers.

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H&M Associates In Quebec Join The Union

UFCW Canada Local 500 has applied to represent workers at an H&M store in Joliette, Quebec after a majority of the workers indicated their support for union representation.

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December 6 — the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women

Each year on December 6 — the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women —  we commemorate the loss of the 14 women who were murdered that day in 1989 at Montréal's École Polytechnique simply because they were women.

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