In addition to the many benefits of Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) membership, AWA members are now also automatically covered, at no cost, by a new Accidental Death and Dismemberment Plan. As of September 6, 2011, a $2,500 benefit will be paid to the family of an AWA member who dies while contracted to work in Canada.
UFCW Canada members, family members, and social justice partners are free to sign-up for the newest webCampus courses launching in November. All webCampus courses are offered at no cost, and can be taken at your own pace anywhere you have a computer and an online web connection.
More than 20 UFCW Canada activists, staff and members from across Canada recently showed their Pride by marching in the 2011 Montreal Pride Parade. Included in the delegation were UFCW Canada National President Wayne Hanley; Executive Assistant to the National President Louis Bolduc; UFCW Canada Local Union 500 President Tony Filato; Local Union 503 President Steeve Bégin; Director of Human Rights Naveen Mehta, as well as other members of the UFCW Canada National Council Human Rights, Equity and Diversity Committee.
Labour Day is one of our proudest and longest-running traditions. For over 120 years, workers have come together during the final days of summer to celebrate our monumental achievements and to demonstrate our solidarity by gathering at parades, picnics and other fun-filled activities.
As part of the heartfelt affection Canadians are showing for recently passed NDP Leader Jack Layton, UFCW Canada is calling on all activists, friends and supporters to create something that memorializes Jack’s life and his remarkable commitment to creating a better, fairer Canada.
In honour of Jack Layton's outstanding contribution to the social justice movement, UFCW Canada has created a commemorative poster to celebrate his remarkable life and the hope and optimism he inspired in Canadians from coast to coast.
UFCW Canada members across the country are joining the country in mourning the loss of Jack Layton, leader of the Official Opposition and federal NDP, who died on August 22 after a very brave and courageous battle with cancer.
On August 17, Omar Graham tragically became the sixth Jamaican migrant worker over the past decade to die from an Ontario farm-related accident.
Graham, a native of Manchester, Jamaica, was fatally injured while working for an agriculture operation near Paris, Ontario.
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