UFCW International President Joe Hansen represented UFCW members everywhere at last week’s historic signing of the American health care reform bill by U.S. President Barack Obama.

More than two dozen UFCW Canada activists from across the country attended the recent 12th National Metropolis Conference in Montreal.

UFCW Canada Local 1118 members at the Revera Long Term Care Centre in Medicine Hat, Alta., have ratified a new collective agreement at the 143-bed facility. The contract covers about a hundred members working as licensed practical nurses, nursing attendants, and dietary and cook staff, as well as housekeeping, laundry, and recreational staff.
 

Quebec agricultural operations that deduct a housing charge from Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) have lowered their fees after it was noted the rate they were charging was higher than the maximum allowed under provincial labour regulations.
 

More than 75,000 public-sector workers and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal on March 20, pressing Quebec’s Liberal government of Jean Charest to step up contract negotiations.

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