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.
From across North America, members of the UFCW Women’s Network recently met in Vancouver for the network’s semi-annual executive board meeting.
UFCW Canada activists joined several thousand workers and community groups in Toronto on April 9 to participate in a major protest called the Rally for Rights!, which included a march to city hall where demonstrators make a stand for good jobs and public services.
Over 300 retail workers in Quebec recently became some of UFCW Canada’s newest members thanks to the help of a new Local 500 organizing team.
With a federal election on the horizon, and a Manitoba provincial election slated for the fall, getting involved in politics was the top of the agenda at the UFCW Canada Local 832 Annual Policy Convention and Stewards Conference held recently in Winnipeg.
As the 2011 federal election rolls into its third week, most of us have repeatedly heard the politicians tell us what issues should be the most important to working families, but how many of those priorities are in sync with the things that matter most to UFCW Canada members and their communities.
As part of UFCW Canada’s national initiatives with immigrant and migrant worker communities, about 25 UFCW Canada delegates and allies from across the country actively participated in the 13th National Metropolis Conference — Immigration: Bringing the World to Canada, held in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Against the backdrop of the 13th Metropolis Conference in Vancouver B.C., UFCW Canada and Migrante BC hosted a standing room only press conference on March 23, 2011 — Migrant Workers@ Denny’s: Equal in Rights?
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