Local 1000A wins injunction against Loblaws
UFCW Canada Local 1000A recently announced that food retail members have won a court injunction to stop Loblaws Supermarkets Ltd.’s inappropriate application of a letter of understanding in the collective agreement. Letter of Understanding 59 concerns the conversion of a conventional store to a Great Food banner and states if a member does not regularly work a particular time or day at their store, they will not be required to make themselves available for work at that time or day in the Great Food banner if it’s for legitimate reasons and not personal preference.
The online efforts of activists and civil society organizations around the world have contributed to a big win for meat packers in New Zealand.
2011 was an important year for working Canadians. Amidst rising unemployment, an ever-growing divide between the nation's richest and poorest citizens, and a lack of government support for people who are desperately in need, voters made history by electing Jack Layton's New Democratic Party (
VANCOUVER, BC - December 19, 20011 - Over a hundred workers and community and labour activists converged at Library Square in downtown Vancouver, Canada yesterday chanting 'Stop the Blacklist', in a protest aimed at the Mexico government and its Vancouver consulate. It was the third such protest in the last two months and the largest to date — combining street theatre, a holiday choir, and even a solidarity visit by Santa Claus
Proclaimed by the United Nations in 2000, December 18th is annually commemorated as International Migrants Day to raise awareness that the human and labour rights of migrant workers must be respected and protected across all borders.
Over 235 food processing workers in Mississauga, Ontario, recently voted to become the newest members of 
Workers at a vegetable farm and wholesale operation 70 kilometers northeast of 
December 24th marks the second anniversary of the Toronto Christmas Eve scaffold tragedy, in which four migrant workers were killed and another seriously injured after the scaffold that was supporting them collapsed. 
