Education Has No Borders – May 13, 2010 – Toronto
On Thursday, May 13, UFCW Canada, along with migrant workers, and community, academic, and labour allies will host Education Has No Borders — a celebration of the empowering effect of education.
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UFCW Canada union victory for Quebec farm workers
Seasonal agriculture workers in Quebec have had their Charter rights to unionize upheld by a decision rendered by the Quebec Labour Relations Board (QLRB). The QLRB decision to certify a union bargaining unit at a Mirabel-area farm comes 20 months and 36 days of hearings after a majority workers at the farm chose to join UFCW Canada.
Ontario region YIP program kicks off for 2010
UFCW Canada’s successful Youth Internship Program (YIP) for young member activists kicked off its 10th annual program with a weeklong session for a dozen Ontario members.
Local 12R24 MAP network grows
UFCW Canada Local 12R24’s already extensive network of more than 60 Members Assistance Program (MAP) workplace representatives grew by nine on March 31 when the new peer-to-peer volunteers completed training and were certified at a session in Niagara Falls, Ont.
Recycling workers say Union Yes – again
More than 40 workers at Scotia Recycling in Kentville, N.S., northwest of Halifax, are the newest members of UFCW Canada Local 864, part of the Eastern Provinces Council (EPC).
Marking the 25th anniversary of Refugee Rights Day
Refugee Rights Day – recognized every April 4 – commemorates a historic decision made by the Supreme Court of Canada, a decision that changed the fate of many refugees arriving to seek asylum in this country.
Half-million call for U.S. immigration reform
On the same day the House of Representatives was busy giving final sanction to the health care bill, a crowd estimated as high as a half-million people rallied along a seven-block length of the Washington, D.C., National Mall in front of the Capitol in support of much-needed immigration reform.
Students unite in fight for migrant rights
March 9, 2010 marked the first-ever chapter launch of a new national, student-led activist organization – Students Against Migrant Exploitation, or SAME – at Carleton University in the nation’s capital, sponsored by UFCW Canada’s Human Rights, Equity & Diversity (HRED) department. A few days later, on March 12, more than a hundred students took part in launching another SAME chapter, this time on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ont.
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