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SOME HORSES ARE TREATED BETTER THAN SAFEWAY CASHIERS

Jun 9, 2010 - Did you know that horses in Stanley Park are treated better than our Safeway Cashiers at self-serve scanners?Good enough for a horse...

General Membership Meetings June 7-8 in Lower Mainland
Jun 4, 2010

"If they are good enough to work here, they are good enough to stay."
Jun 1, 2010 - By Tom Sandborn, 1 June 2010, TheTyee.ca

ITUC launches young people’s campaign
May 28, 2010 - The International Trade Union Confederation has launched a new campaign to connect global trade union work to the recruitment and organizing of young people.

"...the labour movement is against taxes that are dishonest and regressive. The HST is both."

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Port Alberni Coop members ratify new contract
May 26, 2010 - UFCW 1518 members at the Port Alberni Coop voted to accept terms for a new collective agreement at a union meeting last night in Port Alberni.

Boycott against State of Arizona underway
May 25, 2010 - UFCW Canada is calling on all members to stand in solidarity with their fellow workers and UFCW brothers and sisters in the United States by supporting a boycott against the State of Arizona, which recently passed a law that allows for greater discrimination against the State’s large and growing...

Latest Local 1518 Update online
May 24, 2010 - Click here to view the Spring 2010 edition.

Community Social Services bargaining committee meets with employers’ group, tables proposals
May 21, 2010 - The Union Bargaining Association for UFCW 1518 members employed as Community Social Service workers met with the employers’ group this week in Richmond.

Mediator to assist Shoppers Drug Mart negotiations
May 20, 2010 - The Union Negotiating Committee and representatives from Shoppers Drug Mart met on May 13th to negotiate a new collective agreement for members employed at Store #272 in Vancouver.