Calgary – August 11, 2020 – UFCW Local 401 is pleased to announce that Safeway members across Alberta have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new collective agreement. With more than half of the Local’s nearly 8,000-strong Safeway membership participating in the contract proposal and ratification processes, 90 percent voted to accept the company’s offer for a new union contract at Alberta Safeways.
Toronto – August 10, 2020 – A new report from UFCW Canada, the country’s leading advocate for agricultural workers, has called for urgent changes to protect the health, safety, and rights of tens of thousands of migrant agricultural workers who are essential to Canada’s food supply.
Victoria, B.C. – August 8, 2020 – UFCW Local 1518 members working at Lifestyle Markets have ratified their first collective agreement, achieving hazard pay, new benefits, and more.
Toronto – August 7, 2020 – Canada’s leading union for food workers, UFCW Canada, has joined in solidarity with unions and labour allies around the world in calling on global food processing giant Cargill to stop preventing workers in Turkey from expressing their democratic right to join a union.
Toronto – August 6, 2020 – Did you know that August 7 is International Beer Day? Across Canada, beer is a popular and beloved beverage for many, as Canadians consumed more than 71 litres of beer per capita last year.
Trois-Rivières, Que. – August 6, 2020 – Dali Léveillé is one of eighteen winners of the UFCW Canada – BDM Scholarship. Currently enrolled in the Nature Science program at the Cégep de Trois-Rivières, Dali is a proud UFCW Local 501 member who works at Olymel.
Edmonton – August 5, 2020 – When Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party (UCP) won Alberta’s provincial election in 2019, workers and the labour movement braced themselves for the inevitable assault on their rights.
Deep River, Ont. – August 4, 2020 – UFCW Local 1006A members working at Jan’s Valu-Mart have ratified a new union contract that provides improved language, wage protection, and more.
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