Toronto – January 18, 2014 – Statistics Canada has released December job numbers for Ontario and the picture isn’t pretty with the province shedding 39,000 jobs, most of them full time and the unemployment rate rising to 7.9%.
A new public opinion poll conducted by Pollara Research on behalf of UFCW Canada Local 12R24 – which represents Ontario's 7,000 Beer Store employees – reveals that Ontario consumers overwhelmingly support the province's current system for selling alcohol.
Ottawa – November 23, 2013 – After 3 years of lobbying and campaigning by UFCW Canada and the Canadian labour movement, provincial and territorial governments are coming to the conclusion that expanding the CPP is the most efficient, effective and affordable plan to ensuring Canadians retirement security.
Toronto – November 14, 2013 – UFCW Canada members and political action course graduates recently put their skills to work in Toronto by volunteering for pro-worker candidate Linda McQuaig in the city’s by-election. McQuaig is an award-winning author and journalist who is especially well-known for her work about the rapidly growing gap between the rich and the rest of us, and the essential role of organized labour in building more fairness for our communities and future.
Ottawa – November 6, 2013 – The Harper government has now proposed to substantially weaken the health and safety protections for workers employed in federally regulated industries and workplaces. The proposals are a matter of life and death and would leave federal workers faced with employer reprisal for refusing to do dangerous work.
Ottawa – October 31, 2013 – No doubt Conservative Boss Harper is looking forward to flying off to Calgary and escaping the frying pan he finds himself in on Parliament Hill, as every day we increasingly find out more information about the PM and his involvement in the Duffy, Wallin, Brazeau Senate scandal.
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