Toronto – April 19, 2024 – Every year on April 28, communities across Canada gather to observe the National Day of Mourning. This solemn occasion serves as a reminder of the lives lost or injured due to workplace accidents, illnesses, or fatalities.
Hamilton, Ont. – April 17, 2024 – Development support workers at the Beth Tikvah Foundation in Hamilton have voted to join UFCW 175 & 633.
Toronto – April 16, 2024 – April 22 was designated as “International Mother Earth” day by the UN General Assembly in 2009. It recognizes that the Earth and its ecosystems are our home, and that it is necessary to promote harmony with nature and the Earth. The term “Mother Earth” reflects the interdependence that exists among human beings, other living species and the planet we all inhabit.
Toronto – April 15, 2024 – April 28 marks the National Day of Mourning for workers injured and killed on the job and the United Nation’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
Chatham, Ont. – April 12, 2024 – UFCW 1006A members working as security guards at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance have ratified a new union contract.
April 10, 2024 – Goderich, Ont. – The latest recipient of the BDM scholarship award goes to a UFCW 175 member, Elise Puska.
Toronto – April 10, 2024 – April 16, 2024 is Equal Pay Day. It symbolizes how far into the next year the average woman must work in order to have earned what the average man had earned in the previous year.
Nanaimo, B.C. – April 8, 2024 – Workers at two Trees Cannabis locations in Nanaimo have joined their colleagues at other locations across Vancouver Island by joining UFCW Local 1518, establishing Trees Cannabis as British Columbia’s first private wall-to-wall unionized cannabis chain.
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