UFCW EPC joins thousands to celebrate PRIDE Halifax
Halifax – August 8, 2013 – UFCW Canada activists from across Nova Scotia, and throughout the Maritimes, recently gathered in Halifax to participate in the East Coast's largest PRIDE celebration.
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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — August 9
Toronto – August 1, 2013 – Every year, on 9 August, the world celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This day was created to raise awareness of the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide, and honours the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva on 9 August 9, 1982, that drafted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
UFCW Canada Migrant Workers Scholarship recipient Kevin Gerardo Hernandez
Toronto – July 31, 2013 – UFCW Canada is giving migrant workers and their families hope for a better future through the 2013 Migrant Workers Scholarship program, which offers twenty $500 union scholarships to the family members of migrant workers.
UFCW Canada Migrant Workers Scholarship Recipient Martha Gonzalez Guadarrama
Toronto – July 22, 2013 – UFCW Canada is giving migrant workers and their families hope for a better future through the 2013 Migrant Workers Scholarship program, which offers twenty $500 union scholarships to the family members of migrant workers.
Virgil AWA and community "Welcome Back" Caribbean workers
Virgil, Ontario – June 16, 2013 – For the second year in a row, migrant agriculture workers, members of Toronto's Jane-Finch community, AWA staff, and SAME activists (Students Against Migrant Exploitation) gathered at the Agriculture Workers Alliance Centre in Virgil, Ontario to celebrate at the Caribbean Workers Welcome Back BBQ.
UFCW Canada Migrant Workers Scholarships recipients announced
Toronto – July 13, 2013 – The 20 recipients of the 2012 UFCW Canada Migrant Worker Scholarships have been announced. The recipients are a diverse group of young people from the Global South, ranging in age from 6 to 24 — attending school in Guatemala, the Philippines, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Kenya, El Salvador and Mexico. Each recipient was nominated by a family member working as a migrant or temporary foreign worker in Canada.
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