Across the world, the economic crisis had a more dramatic effect on young people seeking decent work. On the global scale, between 2008 and 2009, the youth unemployment rate registered the largest annual increase on record, up to 13%.
UFCW Canada – Canada’s largest private-sector union – has joined the Canadian Labour Congress and other leading organizations in calling on the United Nations to immediately remove Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik from a UN Committee black list that affronts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Gerardo Sanchez, leader of the Conferederación Nacional Campesina (CNC, Mexico’s largest farm workers union) has presented a motion in the Senate demanding the Minister of Labour to inform the Congress about allegations of anti-union activities against migrant farm workers coming to Canada through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. Mexican media are reacting favorably to the CNC’s press release, which started circulating yesterday.
Migrant farm workers and community members in Bradford, Ontario are mourning the sudden loss of their beloved spiritual guide, Father Jose Maria Naranjo Silva. He was 42-years-old. After a brave months-long battle against cancer, Father Jose finally succumbed on July 31, surrounded by his brother Father Ismael, Father Rony Grayda and other close friends.
Workers at six New York City-area H&M stores, owned by a Sweden-based clothing retailer, won a two-month union-organizing campaign after their employer didn’t demand a secret-ballot election.
Recently, UFCW Canada joined its community partner, KAIROS Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, in culminating its Roll with the Declaration campaign in Ottawa. More than 500 travellers, banner makers, indigenous elders, religious leaders, community activists and supporters gathered at Victoria Island on Algonquin territory (a.k.a. Ottawa, Ontario).
The British Columbia Director of Employment Standards has found Denny’s Restaurant guilty of contravening section 83 of the province’s Employment Standards Act (ESA).
Hundreds of UFCW Canada activists and members joined in the fun and revelry on July 30 at the Caribana festival parade in Toronto. It was the spectacular conclusion of the annual two-week cultural festival inspired by the tradition of West Indian Carnival — with floats, bands, festive costumes, and hundreds of thousands of people lining the parade route.
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