New book examines human rights struggle of Ontario agriculture workers
On April 12, UFCW Canada activists attended the Toronto book launch of Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, edited by lawyer Fay Faraday and professors Eric Tucker and Judy Fudge. The book is a collection of essays that chronicle the two stories underlying the Supreme Court's historic Attorney General of Ontario vs. Fraser decision: UFCW Canada's decades-long campaign to secure equal labour rights for agriculture workers in Ontario;
Workers at the Rio Tinto smelter in Alma, Quebec, have been locked-out for months. The company is demanding that every unionized worker – at every Rio Tinto facility on the planet – take a 50% wage cut.
Activists from the Making Change at Walmart campaign greeted investors at Walmart’s international investors and analysts meeting held in Toronto from April 11 to 12.
Recently, Jason Kenney, the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, accused social justice groups that support the rights of refugees and temporary foreign workers as "anarchists and anti-capitalist mobs" and "hard-line extremists and anti-Canadian".
The medals awarded to Tommy Douglas, the former Premier of Saskatchewan, will be on display in Regina, Saskatchewan from April 21 – 22.
Solidarity reigned at the recent UFCW Canada Saskatchewan Women’s Conference held in Saskatoon. This unique two-day, annual event, was joined by a record number of participants. Altogether, 53 sisters attended from Saskatchewan-based UFCW Canada Local Unions including 248P, 342P, 649, and 1400.
Just weeks after New Democrats from across Canada assembled in Toronto to elect Tom Mulcair as Leader of the federal NDP, Ontario NDP members gathered at the party's biennial convention in Hamilton this past weekend.
On Thursday, April 19, 
