BC hearings start into Blacklisting of Mexican migrant workers
BC Labour Board hearing begins into unfair labour practice charges that Sidhu & Sons Nursery conspired with Mexican Consulate against Mexican migrant farm workers who formed union
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1,500 Zellers workers ratify new union contract and ask Target for fairness
More than 1,500 Zellers workers have ratified a new three-year collective agreement. The members of UFCW Canada Local 175 work at 12 Zellers stores across Ontario. Negotiations between the union and the company successfully concluded at end of January.
NUPGE solidarity adds to Migrant Workers Family Support Fund
A generous donation from the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) has helped push the fundraising efforts for the Migrant Workers Family Support Fund past the $70,000 mark.
President Felipe Calderón receives more than 5,000 protest emails to Stop the Blacklisting
TORONTO, ON – February 16, 2012 – More than 5,000 emails in one day alone have been sent to President Felipe Calderón of Mexico telling him to stop the blacklisting of Mexican migrant who exercised their fundamental human and labour rights while working Canada.
UFCW Canada joins Calgary Memorial March
February 14, 2012 - UFCW Canada members and activists gathered with other community members for the Fourth Annual Calgary Valentine's Day Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women. The Calgary memorial was one of 12 such events held across Canada to honour and call attention to the 700 or more aboriginal women who have disappeared or been murdered over the past two decades, with the majority of the cases still unsolved.
Future Shop workers make history in Quebec
A group of retail workers in Quebec are in the midst of making labour history by becoming the first Future Shop employees to overwhelmingly support the union.
Donations flood in for families of the victims of Hampstead tragedy
Hundreds of donors respond to the Migrant Workers Family Support Fund in first week alone
February 15, 2012 - More than $50,000 has been raised to date though a special fund to assist the families of the workers killed or injured in a horrific two-vehicle crash on February 6 near Hampstead, Ontario.
UFCW Canada calls for Coroner's Inquest into Hampstead tragedy
TORONTO - February 10, 2012 - UFCW Canada, the leading advocate for agriculture workers in Canada, has called for a coroner's inquest into the horrific February 6, two-vehicle collision near Hampstead, Ontario that killed 10 migrant agriculture workers riding in a van, as well as the driver of the other vehicle.
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