On June 12, UFCW Canada National President Wayne Hanley and UFCW Canada Local 1000A President Pearl Sawyer presented an iPad to Local 1000A member Upender Brar, who won the UFCW Canada NDP Membership Contest by signing up the highest number of new party members in the lead-up to the federal NDP Leadership Convention this past March.
The 2011 annual survey done by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), released on June 6, 2012, reveals that the trade union trade rights continue to be brutally trampled by both governments and employers around the world.
In Canada, National Aboriginal Day is commemorated each year on June 21. When this day was first proclaimed by the Governor General of Canada in 1996, the Canadian Constitution recognized the three groups of Aboriginal peoples: First Nations, Inuit and Métis; each possessing their own diverse heritage, language, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.
Recently, a United Latinos of UFCW committee of inquiry returned from a fact-finding mission in the agriculture area of the B.C. Lower Mainland. What the committee was told by workers and advocates supported allegations now in front of the B.C. Labour Board that the Mexico consular service in Vancouver had blacklisted some its own citizens working in Canada suspected of being union supporters.
Number of people who identify themselves as Aboriginals in Canada.
The recent dramatic changes forced through by the Conservatives' omnibus budget will result in a Canadian society where corporations and their rich friends are the beneficiaries of Harper’s Canada.
Robert Ziegler, the recently retired president of UFCW Canada Local 832 has been honoured as the 2012 recipient of the Stanley Knowles Solidarity Award. The award is presented at each convention of the Manitoba NDP to a trade unionist who has shown a deep commitment to working people and social justice.
June 20th – World Refugee Day
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