Toronto – February 11, 2014 – At a time when young Canadians are struggling to find good paying jobs, more seniors are living in poverty, and while high unemployment persists, especially for First Nations, Harper’s Conservatives introduced a budget more concerned with the continued gutting of services in order to squeeze enough money out of the system to introduce a new round of tax cuts to bolster their re-election campaign in 2015.
Mississauga, Ont. – February 10, 2014 – Workers at the Residence Inn by Marriott in Mississauga – located near Toronto Pearson International Airport – are the newest members of UFCW Canada Local 206 following a winning unionization campaign in late January.
Montreal – February 8, 2014 – UFCW Canada Local 500 members at the Addison Electronics in Montreal have ratified a new collective agreement covering the more than 65 members working at the landmark Montreal electronic components store.
Ottawa – February 7, 2014 – As this is being written, the Harper conservatives have just passed a ‘Time Allocation Motion’ limiting debate on their new Bill C-23, Fair Elections Act. The 242-page bill had only just been introduced and already debate is being restricted.
Toronto – February 6, 2014– More than 582 Aboriginal Women are Missing and Murdered in Canada but Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that he is “skeptical” about the need for a national inquiry.
Toronto – February 6, 2014 – The countdown has started to the launch of the S.A.M.E. Awareness Tour 2014 — building on the success of the 2013 tour and outreach which energized more than 10,000 Ontario youth to defend human rights and fight for migrant worker justice.
Toronto – February 5, 2014 – This week marks the second anniversary of one of the deadliest highway collisions in Ontario history. On February 6, 2012, a 13-passenger van collided with a flatbed truck on a county road near Hampstead, Ontario. A trail of carnage was left near the accident site, as a single family home, painted sky blue, stood virtually untouched while the accident victims lay just a few metres away from the front door. Ten migrant workers perished that day, while three others barely survived to tell their story.
Toronto – February 4, 2014 – On February 14th, UFCW Canada activists will join thousands of other women, men and family members in marches and vigils across Canada to remember and honour missing and murdered women.
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