UFCW Canada remembers the Christmas Eve scaffold tragedy that killed and seriously injured five workers 3 years ago in Toronto
Toronto – December 20, 2012 – December 24th marks the third 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. Aleksey Blumberg, Vladimir Korostin, Fayzullo Fazilov, Aleksanders Bondarevs, and Dilshod Marupov were reinforcing and repairing balconies when the platform they were working on snapped in half and plunged them 13 stories to the base of a Toronto apartment building. The accident occurred just as the five men were preparing to go home for the day.
Ottawa – December 17, 2012 – Since the proclamation in 2000 by the United Nations initiating December 18 as being International Migrants Day, the international trend has been towards less protections for some of the planet's most vulnerable workers - so called "temporary foreign" or migrant workers.
Once again, the Stephen Harper government has viciously attacked migrant and temporary workers in Canada.
On December 10, 1948, the 
UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) recognized the efforts of four outstanding advocates for change in Canada’s agriculture industry at a ceremony in Toronto on November 21.
