Seniors and the OFL occupy 21 Ontario Tory offices: Threats to Old Age Security ignite new movement of Blue-Grey Power
Labour activists teamed up with seniors, retirees and supporters on February 9 to occupying 21 Tory MP offices across Ontario, while other actions are taking place elsewhere in Canada. The Harper government’s recent threat to cut Old Age Security (OAS) benefits has inflamed a new movement of workers and pensioners, calling itself a movement of “Blue-Grey Power,” that is bringing the fight against the Conservative assault on retirement security directly to Tory constituency offices.
In the wake of the tragic accident, UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) have also set a Migrant Workers Family Support Fund to immediately assist the families of the workers who were killed, as well as the families of the injured in the horrific accident.
More than 100 UFCW Canada Local 1869 members recently gathered for the UFCW Canada Local 1869 After Christmas Christmas Party. The post-holiday season get-together was held in late January at the St-Louis Centre in Winnipeg's St. Boniface neighborhood. It was fun-filled evening, as well as a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC).
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Canada’s largest private-sector union, the United Food and Commercial Workers (
