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March 21, 2020 13:10 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

UFCW members achieve wage increase at Loblaw locations across Canada

TORONTO, March 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canada’s voice of grocery store workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW Canada), is pleased to announce that ongoing discussions with...
March 17, 2020 10:30 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

Union demands Ontario cannabis producer bargain a contract

TORONTO, March 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) has notified an Ontario cannabis producer to sit down and bargain a contract for members the...
January 13, 2020 05:00 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

Toronto Uber drivers first to apply for unionization in Canada

TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) has applied to the Ontario Labour Relations Board to unionize Uber Black limousine and SUV...
October 29, 2019 10:07 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

UFCW Canada challenges Ontario’s exclusion of cannabis workers from the right to unionize

TORONTO, Oct. 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) has launched a constitutional challenge to the Ontario government’s exclusion of workers engaged...
August 15, 2019 12:28 ET | Source: TUAC Canada

Les TUAC Canada publient un nouveau guide qui aide les consommateurs à acheter des aliments fabriqués par des syndiqué(e)s canadiens

TORONTO, 15 août 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Le syndicat des travailleurs de l'alimentation, les Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l'alimentation et du commerce (TUAC Canada), a publié un...
August 15, 2019 12:28 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

Food workers’ union releases new guide that helps consumers buy Canadian, union-made food

TORONTO, Aug. 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), the union for food workers, has released a new guide that helps consumers buy high quality,...
July 31, 2019 12:00 ET | Source: TUAC Canada

Un travailleur migrant au Québec se voit accorder son tout premier permis de travail ouvert

SAINTE-MÉLANIE, Québec, 31 juill. 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avec l'aide des Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l’alimentation et du commerce (TUAC Canada), un travailleur agricole...
July 31, 2019 11:59 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

Migrant worker in Quebec granted first-ever open work permit

SAINTE-MELANIE, Quebec, July 31, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With the help of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), a Mexican farm worker has become the first migrant worker in Canada...
July 12, 2019 13:16 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

Food workers’ union welcomes Canadian Agri-food pilot

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, July 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) welcomes the federal government’s announcement regarding an agri-food pilot that...
July 11, 2019 16:18 ET | Source: UFCW Canada

Workers at Tim Hortons gain better wages, job security by joining the union

FORT FRANCES, Ontario, July 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tim Hortons employees in Fort Frances, Ontario have gained better wages, job security, and seniority rights by joining the United Food and...