• Paul Meinema announces retirement, Shawn Haggerty elected President of the UFCW Canada National Council

  • Global Week of Action for Hotel Housekeepers – December 4 - 10

  • Striking video game workers garner international attention

  • Members at Mound Milk build a better life – UFCW 832

  • Activists say Enough is Enough at OFL Convention

  • End Gender-Based Violence – 16 Days of Activism

  • New collective agreement adopted at St-Hubert in Saint-Eustache

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7

Action Centre

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Childcare should cost $10 a day, boards urge

Surrey, BC - February 5, 2013 - Two boards of trade in B.C.'s Lower Mainland are joining forces topressurethe provincialand federal governments to subsidize daycare costs forfamilies, changing the system so parents pay no more than $10 a day forfull-time care.

The boards maintain the incentives are needed in order to help youngfamilies achieve a better work-life balance through features includinglonger parental leaves and alternative work arrangements that make iteasierfor parents to care for young children.

Read more...