Tell the City of Toronto "NO" to Holiday Shopping!
Right now the City of Toronto is considering a business-backed proposal that would allow retail stores to stay open for business on the current provincial Statutory Holidays. That includes Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Family Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Victoria Day, Canada Day and Labour Day.
UFCW Canada Local 1000A has been named “Local of the Year” by the UFCW International Minority Coalition.
TORONTO – Canada’s largest private-sector union, and leading voice for retail workers, is demanding tougher fines for negligent employers after another Toronto-area gas attendant was killed trying to stop a “Gas and Dash” to allegedly protect his wages.
UFCW Canada helped Break the Silence for the Cuban Five by acting as the primary sponsor for a Peoples’ Tribunal & Assembly in Toronto from September 21 to 23.
The deadline for the 2012 UFCW Canada BDM Scholarships is rapidly approaching – don’t miss your chance to win $1,000!
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Square kilometres of Arctic sea ice that melted every day in August 2012. That’s like losing ice the size of New Brunswick every 24 hours. (Source)
Raul Gatica, a long-time a human rights activist, staff member and past coordinator of the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) centre in Surrey, British Columbia, has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his outstanding commitment and contribution to the rights of migrant agricultural workers in Canada.
Toronto, ON - September 17, 2012 — UFCW Canada, Canada's leading union and long-time advocate for migrant workers' rights, endorses the recommendations and agrees with the findings of a new report from the Metcalf Foundation that lays out how current government policy is inadequate in preventing the exploitation and human rights violations of migrant workers in Canada.
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