The Agriculture Workers Alliance and Canada’s largest private-sector union, UFCW Canada, have joined the campaign for democracy that calls on the Harper Government to support Canadian Food, Canadian Farmers and the Canadian Wheat Board
The Ontario NDP has pledged to restore the rights of Ontario farm workers that were stripped away by the Harris Conservative government in 1995, if Andrea Horwath and her party form the next Ontario government. On September 25, the Ontario NDP leader signed a pledge to restore the collective bargaining and unionization rights of agriculture workers in Ontario: rights they last had under a previous Ontario NDP government.
After weeks in the making, the first-ever Liberation Cup Soccer Tournament recently took place in Virgil, Ontario. Four teams in total participated, and three of the teams were comprised of migrant workers. The fourth team travelled from Toronto representing the San Lorenzo Community Center.
30 days – the number of statutory holidays citizens in Finland, Brazil and France enjoy every year
Battling the cold and the rain, thousands of students at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, recently took part in the school’s annual vendor fair.
There are only a few days left to apply for the 18 annual Beggs – Dowling – Mathieu Scholarships of $1,000 each that UFCW Canada offers to active members and their family members for post-secondary study.
From across the Western provinces, 15 young UFCW Canada activists recently gathered in Manitoba to sharpen their community organizing talents, learn new skills to help their fellow workers, and to prepare to make a difference in the political arena.
Have you ever wondered where your produce comes from or how it got to that wonderfully designed pyramid of fruits and vegetables at the grocery store in your town?
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