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Standing in Solidarity with the National Farmers Union's fight for Food Sovereignty

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UFCW Canada is urging members, officers, and activists to support two vitally important campaigns aimed at protecting Canadian farmers and the food that we eat. In launching a legal challenge against the federal government's abolishment of the Canadian Wheat Board's single desk, and by lobbying to ensure that the new Canadian and European free trade deal does not prevent farmers from saving, reusing, and selling their seeds, the National Farmers Union (NFU) is working with consumers and coalition partners to stop the Harper Conservatives' erosion of our food system.

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UFCW Canada Migrant Workers Family Support Fund Delivers First Cheques to Hampstead Tragedy Survivors

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London, ON - May 9, 2012 - Two survivors of a horrific collision near Hampstead, Ontario that killed or injured 14 people have become the first recipients from a nation-wide fund set up by UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) to support and assist the families of the workers killed or injured in the two-vehicle crash in February.

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Long overdue labour legislation regrettably ignores agriculture workers

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UFCW Canada is dismayed to see that two private members bills intended to enhance workers' rights in Ontario neglect to provide agriculture workers with organizing and collective bargaining rights.

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New book examines human rights struggle of Ontario agriculture workers

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On April 12, UFCW Canada activists attended the Toronto book launch of Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, edited by lawyer Fay Faraday and professors Eric Tucker and Judy Fudge. The book is a collection of essays that chronicle the two stories underlying the Supreme Court's historic Attorney General of Ontario vs. Fraser decision: UFCW Canada's decades-long campaign to secure equal labour rights for agriculture workers in Ontario;

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New agriculture bargaining unit in Quebec

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Agriculture workers at  Ferme B. Cousineau & fils S. E. N. C.  — a Quebec field crop operation and storage facility — have become the newest members of UFCW Canada Local 501 following a successful organizing campaign.

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ILO rules "good faith" not good enough to guarantee labour rights of Ontario agriculture workers

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International Labour Organization which sets international labour standards concurs with UFCW Canada human rights complaint and calls on Ontario government to amend cynical farm worker legislation

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