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Save Food Jobs in Canada – Stop the Conservative attack on a key Canadian industry

Ottawa – February 5, 2013 – Canada’s voice for food workers is calling on activists, friends and supporters to join a new campaign that tells the country’s Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz – along with Conservative Boss Stephen Harper – to immediately stop their attack on the Canadian food industry and the hard working people who make it possible.

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Local 401 Oil Sands Members strengthen their voice through new organizing program

Calgary – February 6, 2013 – UFCW Canada Local 401 members from Alberta recently gathered in Calgary for a one week, intensive union organizing and campaign leadership program.

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Local 503 rallies with community to protest EI reforms that will hurt working families in Quebec’s Charlevoix region

Quebec – February 7, 2013 – Activists from UFCW Canada Local 503 recently joined community and movement allies to protest changes to the Employment Insurance Act that will negatively impact members and all working families in Quebec’s Charlevoix region.

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One year later, still no response from Coroner or Ontario government to Hampstead tragedy

Toronto, ON - February 4, 2013 - A year ago, on February 6, 2012, a horrific collision near Hampstead, Ontario killed ten migrant agriculture workers being transported in a van, as well as the Ontario driver of a flatbed truck. Three other migrant workers who were in the van continue to struggle with shattering injuries. "It is a tragedy waiting to happen again," says Wayne Hanley, the national president of UFCW Canada.

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