UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance – two of the country’s leading migrant worker advocacy organizations – are applauding and defending the findings of two new reports that make a direct link between worker illness and the shortcomings of Canada’s migrant worker system.
UFCW Canada’s first-ever Interactive Town Hall is being hailed by activists on Facebook and Twitter as a big success for involving over 8,200 members in a real conversation about politics that included NDP Leader Jack Layton and other pro-worker candidates.
Five extraordinary students from across the globe are the first-ever recipients of the UFCW Canada Migrant Workers Scholarships.
UFCW Canada’s growth momentum has expanded to the Alberta oil sands where 45 food services workers just became Local 401’s newest bargaining unit.
UFCW Canada Local 832 has been working hard for migrant workers ever since many Manitoba employers started recruiting employees from all over the world through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP).
Thanks to the outstanding efforts of Local 500’s new organizing team (see DIRECTIONS 11.15), UFCW Canada’s voice just got stronger in Quebec with the addition of 130 new hospitality industry members.
Calling all voters and activists: www.ufcw.ca is now featuring an exposé on the dangerous new political phenomenon called Harpermania.
On April 28, as we remember workers who have been killed or injured on the job, we must also remember to keep up the fight for the living. Tragically, work-related deaths and accidents remain a terrible reality. Over the past two decades more than 15,000 people have lost their lives to work related accidents, and tens of thousands more have been injured and disabled.
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