According to Statistics Canada, approximately one in three Canadian workers belonged to a union in 2009. In fact, last year 31.4% of the national workforce belonged to a union, which represents a slight increase from 2008 when 31.2% of Canadian workers bargained collectively.
UFCW Canada recently joined temporary foreign workers and other social justice activists by showing up at the offices of several southwestern Ontario politicians to demand fair treatment for the country’s most precarious workforce.
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board (BCLRB) has upheld its March 2010 decision to certify a UFCW Canada Local 1518 bargaining unit of more than 70 seasonal migrant agriculture workers at Sidhu & Sons Nurseries in the Lower Mainland.
On Thursday, May 13, UFCW Canada, along with migrant workers, and community, academic, and labour allies will host Education Has No Borders — a celebration of the empowering effect of education.
Seasonal agriculture workers in Quebec have had their Charter rights to unionize upheld by a decision rendered by the Quebec Labour Relations Board (QLRB). The QLRB decision to certify a union bargaining unit at a Mirabel-area farm comes 20 months and 36 days of hearings after a majority workers at the farm chose to join UFCW Canada.
UFCW Canada’s successful Youth Internship Program (YIP) for young member activists kicked off its 10th annual program with a weeklong session for a dozen Ontario members.
UFCW Canada Local 12R24’s already extensive network of more than 60 Members Assistance Program (MAP) workplace representatives grew by nine on March 31 when the new peer-to-peer volunteers completed training and were certified at a session in Niagara Falls, Ont.
More than 40 workers at Scotia Recycling in Kentville, N.S., northwest of Halifax, are the newest members of UFCW Canada Local 864, part of the Eastern Provinces Council (EPC).
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