Uber Canada’s unilateral proposal is “a dangerous proposition” says Uber workers’ union Drivers reject Uber Canada’s proposal as a cynical ploy that ignores union rights
March 11, 2021 15:40 ET | Source: UFCW Canada UFCW Canada Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
TORONTO, March 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) UFCW Canada, the union organizing Uber drivers and Uber Eats couriers across the country, says Uber Canada’s recent proposal to provincial governments to set up an alternative set of regulations to govern gig workers that Uber calls ‘
Flexible Work’,
“is really Uber flexing and dodging the fact that Uber is the employer, and its workers are employees who are entitled to the full protection and rights under current labour laws, including the right to unionize,” says Paul Meinema, the national president of UFCW Canada (United Food and Commercial Workers union), which currently represents hundreds of Ub
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UFCW Canada is joined by Mexican officials in calling for increased protections for migrant farm workers
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 officials, policy leaders, and members of the media with the union’s
a report, and to call for urgent reforms to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).
At the conference, UFCW Canada National President Paul Meinema outlined recommendations from the 46-page report that could help improve the TFWP, reduce the vulnerability of migrant farm workers labouring in Canada, and provide migrant workers with pathways to permanent residency. President Meinema explained that the report’s 14 recommendations are based on direct input from migrant agricultural workers, as well as UFCW’s thirty years of advocacy on behalf of these workers.
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TORONTO and MEXICO CITY, Dec. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Canada s food workers union, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), will be holding a virtual press conference in Mexico City tomorrow at the state legislature.
The purpose of tomorrow s press conference is to present Mexican officials, policy leaders, and members of the media with the union s
2020 Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canadareport.
The 2020 report details the need for urgent reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), and is based on the direct input of TFWs and the union s 30 years of advocacy on behalf of migrant agricultural workers.