Toronto – February 16, 2017 – UFCW Canada and UFCW Local Unions led the way at dozens of Pride Parades across the country in 2016. In advance of the 2017 Pride Season, UFCW Canada has produced a new resource guide – Creating a UFCW Canada Local Union Pride Committee.
Toronto – February 4, 2017 – February 14 is a day to reflect upon the past and look toward the future to show compassion and stand in solidarity with Indigenous women and children across the country.
Toronto – January 30, 2017 – The UFCW Canada family extends our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the attack on the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre.
Toronto – January 29, 2017 – It has been over 20 years since the House of Commons gave its unanimous consent to annually commemorate and recognize February as Black History Month.
Vancouver – January 25, 2017 – The British Columbia Labour Relations Board (BCLRB) has upheld charges that the owners of a B.C. agriculture operation broke the labour laws in attempting to derail the union rights of migrant agriculture workers at Floralia Plant Growers Limited in the Lower Mainland. The workers are members of UFCW Canada Local 1518.
Toronto – January 20, 2017 – Four years after the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,100 textile workers were killed on the job when the garment factory they were working in collapsed, the government of Bangladesh is still ignoring agreements made after the tragedy to establish workplace safety, and has now allowed a brutal crackdown on garment union activists.
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