Toronto – April 8, 2013 – This year Canada's best union, UFCW Canada, and its local and regional affiliates are once again leading the way in promoting member education by offering more than $335,000 in union scholarships and education assistance funding to eligible members and their families.
Vancouver – April 6, 2013 – UFCW Canada Local 1518 Chantal LaRoche is one of 18 BDM Union Scholarships winners for 2012.
Toronto – April 5, 2013 – Communities across Ontario are calling on Premier Kathleen Wynne to designate Tuesday, April 9 as Equal Pay Day, as a first step to closing the 28 percent gender pay gap that still exists in the province.
Toronto – April 5, 2013 – Fast food workers in New York City need your help. They are making a brave stand for the right to join a union and for fairness by walking off the job to protest the growing inequality between their pay and the profits of their super-rich employers – like McDonalds, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut – who cash-in and hoard the profits of a $200-billion industry.
Toronto – April 4, 2013 - Two weeks and twenty stops later, a cross-Ontario tour by Students Against Migrant Exploitation (S.A.M.E.) engaged thousands of participants and visitors, and has built the way for new S.A.M.E. chapters across Ontario. At the heart of the awareness tour — S.A.M.E’s goal to engage and encourage young people to take action.
Vancouver – April 3, 2013 – Canada’s top union, UFCW Canada, recently completed a series of political action training sessions to further equip activists with the skills they need to elect a BC government that puts the interests of working families first.
Washington, D.C. – April 3, 2013 – UFCW International President Joseph T. Hansen has announced that the 2013 UFCW International Union Scholarship Program application process is now open to eligible applicants across North America. For over 45 years the UFCW International Union has awarded scholarships to recognize bright, young UFCW members and their dependents.
Cambridge, Ont. – April 2, 2013 – Long-time UFCW Canada activist and friend Connie Maile passed away peacefully on March 28 in the company of loved ones at the Grand River Hospital in Cambridge, Ontario.
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