Burnaby, B.C. – March 4, 2014 – UFCW Canada Local 1518 member Trevor Chan is one of eighteen UFCW Canada – BDM Scholarship winners for 2013. Trevor (pictured receiving his scholarship cheque from Local 1518's director of member services Donna Tremblay) is enrolled as a first-year student at the BC Institute of Technology in Burnaby.
Toronto – February 6, 2014 – The countdown has started to the launch of the S.A.M.E. Awareness Tour 2014 — building on the success of the 2013 tour and outreach which energized more than 10,000 Ontario youth to defend human rights and fight for migrant worker justice.
Ottawa – January 24, 2014 – UFCW Canada members are encouraged to participate in an exciting video contest that tells the world what fairness means to you, your family, and your community — in one minute or less.
A panel tasked with advising the Province of Ontario on how it should determine future changes to the minimum wage will be submitting its recommendations to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne this month. The panel heard calls for a $14 an hour minimum wage from various social justice organizations and civil society groups – including Health Providers Against Poverty and the Canadian Federation of Students – that were well-publicized in the media.
At the same time that college and university graduates are struggling to find jobs, a majority of employed Canadians under 25 are making minimum wage, and 42 percent of 20- to 29-year-olds are living with their parents, unpaid internships have emerged as another disturbing trend facing young job-seekers in Canada.
Toronto – November 9, 2013 – A youth leader from Toronto is the first recipient of the Wayne Hanley Award: recently established by the UFCW Local 1993 membership to recognize outstanding displays of youth leadership and achievement.
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