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Over 200 additional migrant agricultural workers at Highline Mushrooms have joined UFCW 1518; largest group of farm workers to join union in Canada.

UFCW Canada is calling for urgent reforms to protect the health, safety and rights of migrant workers in a new report.

TORONTO, Dec. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canada’s Auditor General (AG) Karen Hogan has confirmed in a scathing report that Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) continues to fall short...

OTTAWA, April 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The voice of Canada’s food workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), welcomes the announcement by the federal government to create an...

TORONTO and MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) held a virtual press conference on Thursday, December 10 to present Mexican...

TORONTO, 18 déc. 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aujourd’hui, à l’occasion de la Journée internationale des migrants, le syndicat des Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l’alimentation et du...

TORONTO, Dec. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, on International Migrants Day, Canada’s food workers’ union, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), is calling on the federal...

LEAMINGTON, Ontario, Aug. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agriculture workers met with senior government officials in Leamington, Ontario on Sunday to share their experiences with the Temporary Foreign...

LEAMINGTON, Ontario, Aug. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agriculture workers met with senior government officials in Leamington, Ontario on Sunday to share their experiences with the Temporary Foreign...