Guerrero, Mexico – November 27, 2013 – Last September, two powerful tropical storms hit the Pacific and Atlantic coast of Mexico, leaving behind an unspeakable amount of destruction. The state of Guerrero was particularly hit. The storms took away 40 years' worth of infrastructure in the region.
Quebec City – November 26, 2013 – UFCW Canada Local 509 members at the Coop Saint-Ludger supermarket in Quebec’s Estrie region are excited to have a new collective agreement following a successful ratification vote in October 2013.
Toronto – November 25, 2013 – UFCW Canada activists were out in full force at the 12th Biennial Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Convention which opened Monday in Toronto. The convention, which runs from November 25 to 29, brings together affiliated unions and labour councils from across the province to review and vote on resolutions; elect OFL officers; provides the OFL committees and caucuses an opportunity to formalize working plans and strategies; and presents a series of guest speakers and forums aimed at building equality, workers' rights, and fighting back against the ultra-conservative attack on workers and their unions.
Toronto – November 24, 2013 – As Canada’s leading and most progressive union, UFCW Canada recently launched a new course dedicated to building equality, fairness and workplace standards in the union’s core industries.
Ottawa – November 23, 2013 – After 3 years of lobbying and campaigning by UFCW Canada and the Canadian labour movement, provincial and territorial governments are coming to the conclusion that expanding the CPP is the most efficient, effective and affordable plan to ensuring Canadians retirement security.
Ottawa – November 22, 2013 – Canada’s leading union and advocate for migrant workers is celebrating a November 19 decision by the Federal Court of Appeal that sides with more than one hundred seasonal farm workers, and active members of the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA), who were wrongly denied Employment Insurance parental benefits.
Toronto – November 20, 2013 – UFCW Canada members joined activists from around the globe today to participate in numerous actions to expose Walmart’s bad labour practices, which impact more than two million workers in the global retail industry and at every level of the supply chain.
Washington D.C. – November 20, 2013 – The prestigious “Local of the Year” award was recently presented to UFCW Canada Local 175 at the 15th annual UFCW International Minority Coalition Labor & Community Relations Ball. Each year the Minority Coalition recognizes a Local union for developing a unified voice, promoting diversity and furthering social justice issues within the labour movement.
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