Winnipeg – December 11, 2012 – The 2012 Phase Two of the Youth Internship Program (YIP) recently concluded in Winnipeg, Manitoba. YIP is UFCW Canada's well program for developing youth leadership and empowering young member activists in their union and communities.
Once again, the Stephen Harper government has viciously attacked migrant and temporary workers in Canada.
"This is the Great Tory Ripoff of migrant workers," says UFCW Canada leader
TORONTO, ON - December 10, 2012 - Some of the most vulnerable workers in Canada have been once again viciously attacked by the Harper government which summarily announced that seasonal migrant workers will no longer have key coverage under Employment Insurance (EI), in spite of the fact that migrant agriculture workers alone pay approximately $25 million annually into the EI fund.
Congratulations to the 2013 recipients of the Beggs-Dowling-Mathieu Union Scholarships!
UFCW Canada activists from across Eastern Canada joined nearly 1,700 participants in the annual Atlantic Region Light the Night Walk at the Halifax Commons in Halifax to raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC).
On December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations. Since then, Human Rights Day, December 10, has become an annual opportunity to celebrate and promote the human rights which are the foundation of a democratic and just country.
Grocery store workers at the IGA location on Fraser Highway in Surrey, British Columbia, recently became the newest members of UFCW Canada Local 1518 by voting “Yes!” to Canada’s leading and most progressive voice for workers and their families.
Back in the later part of 2008, I signed up for some Web Campus courses and have been hooked ever since.
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