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Lighting the Night in Montreal

UFCW Canada members were front and centre at Montreal’s 2008 Light the Night walk to benefit leukemia research, organized by our union’s charity of choice, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC).

Illuminer la nuit à Montréal

Des membres des TUAC Canada étaient aux premiers rangs de la marche Illumine la nuit 2008 de Montréal. Cette marche au profit de la recherche sur la leucémie était organisée par la société de bienfaisance adoptée par notre syndicat, la Société de leucémie & lymphome du Canada.

Thanksgiving and the struggle for agriculture workers’ rights

Message from National President Hanley

As millions of families across Canada celebrate Thanksgiving, the people who put much of the food on the table will be working in fields, barns and greenhouses. Thanksgiving is not a day off for workers in the Canadian agriculture industry.

L’Action de grâces et la lutte pour les droits des travailleurs agricoles

Commentaire de Wayne Hanley, Président national

Alors que des millions de familles partout au Canada fêtent l’Action de grâces, les gens qui aident à mettre une bonne partie de la nourriture sur la table à manger seront à l’œuvre dans des champs, des étables et des serres. L’Action de grâces n’est pas un jour de congé pour les travailleurs de l’industrie agricole canadienne.

Maximum support for Maxi strike

"In all my years I have never seen the membership so committed,” says UFCW Canada Local 503 President André Dumas, as about 900 members at 14 Maxi stores in the Quebec City, Trois-Rivières, Sept-Îles, and Rimouski areas have all delivered overwhelming strike mandates to their fourteen negotiating committees. Each store is covered by its own collective agreement, many of which expired more than two years ago.

UFCW Canada Local 503 President André Dumas

Local 503 has now set October 14 as a deadline to reach a setllement to avert a strike.

The "the company stands to lose about $7-million a week if a strike happens at all these locations,” Dumas says. “And it will happen, unless the company is willing to negotiate a settlement for each store that is consistent with the one we already achieved in Baie-Comeau.”

Outreach helps grow union in Ontario

Many of UFCW Canada’s newest members – workers from Wing’s Food Products who became members of UFCW Canada Local 175 in August – joined National President Wayne Hanley and hundreds of other UFCW Canada members to celebrate at this year’s Labour Day parade in Toronto.

“The Wing’s victory is a prime example of how our union plays a key role in making sure that Canada keeps its promise to workers. People come here because they believe Canada is a place where hard work is rewarded, and where workers are treated with dignity and respect,” says UFCW Canada National President Wayne Hanley.