Toronto – May 9, 2025 – UFCW Canada is proud to support the release of a groundbreaking new report calling for the establishment of enforceable national housing standards for migrant agricultural workers across Canada.
Mexico City, Mex. – December 17, 2024 – December 18 marks International Migrants Day, a day to recognize the contributions of migrants; in Canada, migrant workers are crucial to our economy and our food security.
November 18, 2024 – The Federal Government’s Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration recently released a report on Conditions for Growth: Reconsidering Closed Work Permits in the Temporary Foreign Workers Program.
Toronto – August 14, 2024 – A new UN report condemns Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program in a scathing indictment; the report reiterates many of the same criticisms that UFCW has been issuing for decades about systemic exploitation within the system.
Langley, B.C. – July 9, 2024 – Nearly 400 workers at five Highline Mushrooms farms in British Columbia have joined United Food and Commercial Workers 1518. On July 8, the B.C. labour board certified the latest group of workers to join the union: 210 workers at the Langley mushroom farm are joining the recently-unionized members at the Abbotsford locations.
Abbotsford, B.C. – June 18, 2024 – 170 migrant agricultural workers at the four Highline Mushrooms factory farms in Abbotsford have unionized and joined United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1518.
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