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NUPGE Social Justice Solidarity Fund backs AWA efforts with $15,000 donation

Ottawa — On December 17, James Clancy, National President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), attended the Supreme Court of Canada review of the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that in November 2008 ordered the McGuinty Liberals to drop its ban on farm unions. Clancy pledged his union’s support to the UFCW Canada cause, and used the occasion to present a $15,000 donation from NUPGE’s Social Justice Solidarity Fund to the Agricultural Workers Alliance (AWA).

International Migrants Day

The day, proclaimed by the United Nations, recognizes the contributions of migrant workers and calls for measures to protect their rights.

UFCW Canada, AWA and Migrante Ontario celebrate International Migrants Day

UFCW Canada, the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA), Migrante Ontario, a community group part of Migrante International, and CHRY, a progressive community radio station based out of York University in Toronto, recently sponsored an International Migrants Day Celebration by joining community allies at a forum that focused on cooperation and the different ways social justice groups can work together to make Canada a more just place for its most vulnerable workers - migrants and immigrant.

Vigil held for temporary foreign workers killed on the job

On January 7, UFCW Canada activists joined more than two hundred other labour and community allies for a candlelight vigil held at the base of a Toronto apartment building where a Christmas Eve construction accident had killed four migrant workers, and left a fifth migrant with critical injuries. The vigil was organized by Justice for Migrant Workers and No One Is Illegal-Toronto.

Even a Walmart wage too much?

In its never-ending quest for yet more profits at the cost of
workers and their communities, giant retailer Walmart last
week announced it was cutting more than 10,000 jobs at
its Sam’s Club chain in the U.S., replacing them with outsourced
workers hired for “Shopper Events.”

DIRECTIONS 10.06: DIRECTIONS now online only

If you are reading this, you are already aware that, as of this issue, UFCW Canada's DIRECTIONS newsletter is no longer being published as a printed and mailed publication, but is now solely published online.

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The day, proclaimed by the United Nations, recognizes the contributions of migrant workers and calls for measures to protect their rights.

In its never-ending quest for yet more profits at the cost of workers and their communities, giant retailer Walmart last week announced it was cutting more than 10,000 jobs at its Sam’s Club chain in the U.S., replacing them with outsourced workers hired for “Shopper Events.”

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In its never-ending quest for yet more profits at the cost of
workers and their communities, giant retailer Walmart last
week announced it was cutting more than 10,000 jobs at
its Sam’s Club chain in the U.S., replacing them with outsourced
workers hired for “Shopper Events.”