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.
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.
UFCW Canada is calling on all activists, friends and supporters to stand in solidarity with our Sisters and Brothers in Holland who work for FNV Bondgenoten as cleaners and have been striking for fairness for over a month.
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.
Zellers workers across Canada are uniting as part of a new campaign that is asking Target for fairness when it comes to staffing its “new” Canadian stores.
TORONTO, ON — February 6, 2012- The union that has led a two-decade campaign for increased workplace and safety rights for Ontario farm workers has offered its condolences and renewed its call for increased diligence in the wake of a horrific two-vehicle collision Monday that reportedly killed 10 agriculture workers riding in a van, as well as the driver of another vehicle.
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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