Description: The general counsel for the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada union is calling changes to the federal government’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program a “smokescreen” and adds that one provision is “absolutely unconscionable.” Source: The Toronto Star Date: 01/03/2014 Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/03/new_regulations_to_temporary_foreign_worker_program_called_a_smokescreen.html Related links: Globe and Mail story Global TV story UFCW The Temporary Foreign… Read more »
Posts Tagged: UFCW
Supreme Court says union can tape on picket line
Description: The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled an Alberta law that prohibits unions from videotaping people crossing a picket line violates free speech provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Source: The Globe and Mail Date: 11/15/2013 Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/supreme-court-gives-alberta-union-a-win-in-picket-line-privacy-case/article15456686/ Related links: CTV story Lexology summary of decision SCC decision The Alberta Personal Information… Read more »
Superstore workers hold ‘fairness day’
Description: The United Food and Commercial Workers union has taken out full-page newspaper ads addressed to Loblaw Executive Chairman Galen Weston Jr. on the eve of possible strikes in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Source: CBC Date: 09/28/2013 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-superstore-workers-poised-to-strike-1.1872134 Related links: Text of open letter to Galen Weston Jr. Winnipeg Free Press story Global News story… Read more »
Union calls Target hiring practices unfair
Description: The United Food and Commercial Workers of Canada says Target’s practice of guaranteeing interviews – but not jobs – to Zellers employees in Thunder Bay is unfair. Source: CBC Date: 03/12/2013 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/story/2013/03/12/tby-targer-hiring-thunder-bay-store.html Related links: UFCW statement Target Canada Earlier story Target Fairness campaign Earlier update Slaw legal blog discussion of successorship Questions for… Read more »
Ontario Zellers workers ratify contract
Description: Unionized workers at Ontario Zellers stores have ratified a three-year contract that provides increased severance pay as the company’s stores are sold to non-union retailers from the U.S. Source: CBC Date: 02/20/2012 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/02/20/toronto-ontario-zellers-workers-union.html Related links: Canadian Labour Reporter story United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175 Zellers Target Wal-Mart Canada Questions for discussion:… Read more »
Zellers workers want to keep contract
Description: Unionized workers at a B.C. Zellers want American retail giant Target to honour their collective agreement when it takes over their store next year. Source: The Vancouver Sun Date: 12/02/2011 Link: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Zellers+staff+want+union+agreement+honoured/5800974/story.html Related links: Globe and Mail story Canadian Labour Reporter story Toronto Star story Zellers Target UFCW Questions for discussion: Why does the… Read more »
Expelled migrant workers sue
Description: Three migrant farm workers are suing the federal government and their former employer after allegedly being thrown out of the country without explanation. Source: Globe and Mail Date: 11/24/2011 Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/migrant-workers-sue-ottawa-and-farm-for-breaching-contract-charter-rights/article2248184/ Related links: CBC story UFCW Canada press release The law firm representing the workers, Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP Tigchelaar Berry Farms Seasonal… Read more »
Union claims activist blacklisted
Description: The United Food and Commercial Workers union has filed a complaint with the B.C. Labour Relations Board claiming that the Mexican government and a B.C. farm have blocked a pro-union seasonal worker from returning to this country. Source: Macleans.ca Date: 05/24/2011 Link: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/24/what-happened-down-on-the-farm/ Related links: B.C. Labour Relations Board United Food and Commercial Workers… Read more »
Supreme Court restricts farm workers’ bargaining rights
Description: In a complex judgement, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld an Ontario law that limits the bargaining rights of farm workers. The court ruled that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives workers the right to bargain with their employers, but that “it does not guarantee a legislated dispute resolution mechanism in the… Read more »
