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Six weeks left to win two iPads and $18,000 in scholarships

Six weeks left to win two iPads and $18,000 in scholarships Toronto – August 17, 2020 – With just over six weeks left to apply for the 2020 UFCW Canada – BDM Scholarship program, time is running out for your chance to win one of 18 scholarships worth $1,000 each, or one of two Apple iPads.

Build your skills in leadership, notetaking, and health and safety with new webCampus On-the-Go courses

Toronto – August 15, 2020 – UFCW Canada’s ground-breaking online education program, webCampus, continues to provide exciting and dynamic learning opportunities with the addition of five new “On-the-Go” courses focusing on leadership, notetaking, mental health, and more.

Food processing workers at Frulact Canada join the union – UFCW 1006A

Kingston, Ont. – August 14, 2020 – Food processing workers at Frulact Canada are the newest members of UFCW Local 1006A after recently voting to join the union.

Politics Blog: Conservatives are putting kids and families at risk with back-to-school plans

Toronto – August 13, 2020 – As September fast approaches, provincial governments across the country are scrambling to reopen schools in order to get kids back into the classroom and help parents return to work.

UFCW and allies provide PPE, food donations to migrant workers in Leamington

Leamington, Ont. – August 12, 2020 – In response to the series of COVID-19 outbreaks at farming operations across Southwestern Ontario, UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) have partnered with ConquerCOVID19 and Legal Assistance of Windsor (LAW) to distribute personal protective equipment (PPE) and food donations to temporary and migrant farm workers in Leamington, Ontario.

UFCW 401 members at Safeway locations across Alberta vote in favour of new union contract

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.