One of Québec’s most colourful and effective labour leaders, Louis Laberge was a unique friend of workers whose achievements will be long remembered not only in Québec, but across Canada. Nationally respected, Brother Laberge was an ardent and eloquent spokesperson for the Québec labour movement. He died on July 18, aged 78.
As the new year started with the annual meeting of the union’s international executive board and advisory committee, three newly-elected Canadian vice-presidents took their place at the table.
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to announce that, after many months of hard work by UFCW Canada Communications staff and the assistance of Web design experts, UFCW Canada’s Web site has been redeveloped and redesigned in both official languages.
It was with great pleasure that UFCW Canada Local 175 made the announcement late last month that one of the longest retail strikes in Canadian history had come to an end, with the settlement on behalf of more than 400 UFCW Canada members at Canada Safeway stores in Thunder Bay, Ont.
UFCW Canada members at the Maple Leaf Poultry plant in Brampton, Ont., cooked up some good news for Haiti earthquake relief recently.
Since creating its own profile page less than a year ago, UFCW Canada has become one of the most popular Canadian unions on facebook with more than 1,150 "fans."
Recently, at the University of Ottawa Law School, UFCW Canada was the event sponsor of a fundraiser reception for the Myriam Merlet Feminist International Solidarity Camp, a resource, health, and communications centre for women being established near the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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