Workers at a specialized poultry operation near Marieville, Québec have become the newest UFCW Canada Local 501 agriculture bargaining unit. The new members work at a duck farm operated by La Ferme Palmex — a Québec company that specializes in the breeding, production and processing of ducks for the domestic and international gourmet food market.
Each year, the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS) at the University of Toronto (U of T) holds an annual fundraising event to support initiatives with strong ties to the Latin American community in Canada.
UFCW Canada is urging members, officers, and activists to support two vitally important campaigns aimed at protecting Canadian farmers and the food that we eat. In launching a legal challenge against the federal government's abolishment of the Canadian Wheat Board's single desk, and by lobbying to ensure that the new Canadian and European free trade deal does not prevent farmers from saving, reusing, and selling their seeds, the National Farmers Union (NFU) is working with consumers and coalition partners to stop the Harper Conservatives' erosion of our food system.
London, ON - May 9, 2012 - Two survivors of a horrific collision near Hampstead, Ontario that killed or injured 14 people have become the first recipients from a nation-wide fund set up by UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) to support and assist the families of the workers killed or injured in the two-vehicle crash in February.
UFCW Canada is dismayed to see that two private members bills intended to enhance workers' rights in Ontario neglect to provide agriculture workers with organizing and collective bargaining rights.
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;
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