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The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile and chemical trades, and retail food. Until July 2005, UFCW was affiliated with the AFL-CIO, where it was the second largest union by membership. Along with two other members of the Change to Win Coalition, the UFCW formally disaffiliated with the AFL-CIO on July 29 2005.
History
The UFCW was created through the merger of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters union and Retail Clerks International Union in 1979. The UFCW expanded by merging with several smaller unions between 1980 and 1998.
Agriculture
Legal challenges
The UFCW has been fighting to win rights for agricultural workers in Ontario, Canada since 1995, when the then newly elected Ontario Progressive Conservative Party government passed legislation prohibiting those workers from joining unions. In 2001 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of UFCW Canada in the case of Dunmore v. Ontario.* The Court held that the Ontario government violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by denying agricultural workers unionization rights under Ontario labor law as it had infringed on those workers' freedom of association. More on [ United Food and Commercial Workers ]
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United Food and Commercial Workers Canada - UFCW-Canada represents 205,000 workers in supermarkets, packing houses, bakeries, restaurants, warehouses and other food related workplaces.
633 - Representing 40,000 workers in the Greater Toronto Area.
Meta Description: [ Locals 175 & 633 of the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada form the largest local of any union in Canada. President Wayne Hanley and staff represent more than 50,000 Ontario workers in over 900 workplaces across approximately 20 sectors of the economy. ]
A Better Life for Wal-Mart Workers - Information about UFCW Local 832's campaign is to unionise Wal-Mart workers in Manitoba.
Meta Description: [ Information about the higher wages, more benefits, greater respect that can be obtained through a union contract ]
Office Depot Workers - This site is part of the drive to organize Office Depot workers into a union with the Retail Wholesale Division of UFCW.
REAP, Research Education Advocacy People - Rank-and-file UFCW union reform movement working for union democracy and leadership accountability, fighting union corruption and scandal.
Meta Description: [ REAP is a non-profit union reform movement.
Visit this site for information on: UFCW, corruption, union democracy, leadership
accountability, packinghouse and grocery store workers and labor history. ]
UFCW 1000A - Representing over 17,000 workers across Ontario.
UFCW 1518 - Representing workers in the lower mainland of British Columbia.
UFCW 247 - Represents retail food workers and others in British Columbia.
Meta Description: [ UFCW Local 247, United Food & Commercial Workers Union Canada. Our purpose is to improve the working lives of our members and all workers and we have been doing so in this province for over fifty years. ]
UFCW Canada - Local 248P - Servicing Mitchells Gourmet Foods, Maple Leaf Foods, Canamera Foods and Star Egg in Saskatoon.
Meta Description: [ United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 248P servicing Mitchells Gourmet Foods, Maple Leaf Foods, Canamera Foods and Star Egg. ]
UFCW Local 1400 - Represents members employed mainly in the retail food sector, warehouse and distribution centres, soft drinks, security, and hotel industry in Saskatchewan.
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UFCW Members For Democracy - A rank-and-file reform group committed to stopping undemocratic practices, and restoring the UFCW to its rightful leadership: the rank-and-file.
UFCW, Local 832 - Information about the activity of the union that represents over 16,000 workers in Manitoba, employed in a wide variety of occupations.
Meta Description: [ information about the current activities of ufcw local 832 in manitoba, canada - updated most days. ]
Wal Mart Workers Canada - Campaign to unionise Wal-Mart workers across Canada.
