Happy Vaisakhi from Unifor! 🧡
Our volunteers were proud to join the Surrey Khalsa Day celebrations—a day that honours equality, service, and standing together, values we share in the labour movement.
Wishing everyone a joyful Vaisakhi.
Contract negotiations between Unifor Local 4276 and the Fairmont Empress Hotel have broken off, with no further bargaining dates scheduled.
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The Canada Health Act turns 42 today. It guarantees care based on need, not wealth.
Alberta's Bill 11 threatens to end that with two-tier health care.
Tell PM mark-carney.bsky.social: enforce the CHA. Health care is a right.
The Ontario Retired Workers Council met at Unifor Local 88 in Ingersoll, Ont. yesterday, where 118 retirees discussed healthcare, pensions, protecting Cdn. jobs, prep for the National Council in Port Elgin this September, and heard from guest speaker ORC Chair Shinade Allder.
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Root cause, real change.
From April 10 – 12, Unifor members participated in the National Health and Safety Conference to build strong workplace inspection and investigation skills.
Full story: www.unifor.org/news/all-new...
The Atlantic Regional Council Women’s Committee event with author Judy Darcy has been cancelled.
The event was set to be held at the Saint John’s Unifor office on Saturday, April 18.
Unifor and @lanapayne.bsky.social congratulate @torontostar-rss.bsky.social reporter @bkstar.bsky.social on his 2026 Canadian Hillman Prize.
His fearless reporting on abuses at Maplehurst jail shows why journalism in the public interest matters: holding power to account.
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Without care work, no one works.
That’s why, this #EqualPayDay, we joined the Equal Pay Coalition rally to amplify the message that: Care Counts! Wages Matter!
Help spread the message. Visit equalpaycoalition.org/mobilize-your-mpps.
Join the Atlantic Regional Council Women’s Committee for an inspiring afternoon with feminist, labour activist and politician Judy Darcy!
Judy will be in New Brunswick promoting her book Leading from the Heart.
📅 Saturday, April 18
🕒 2:30-4:30 p.m.
📍Unifor Saint John office - 1655 Manawagonish Rd
This Equal Pay Day, Unifor is proud to share the message that Care Counts.
This year’s message highlights the urgent need to protect and expand child care services, and ensure child care workers are paid a pay equity compliant fair wage.
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Cuba is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis due to fuel shortages and sanctions—impacting food, healthcare, and essential services.
Workers are feeling it too, including in air transportation with cancelled flights.
Canada must act. Sign the petition:
petition.web.net/CanadaActNow...
Unifor is dedicated to declaring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) an epidemic across the country.
Join us as we continue the work with a groundbreaking IPV Symposium in Charlottetown, PEI.
🗓️ Tuesday, April 28
🕘 9am – 2pm
🔗 Register by April 24: form.jotform.com/260813499033...
That’s a wrap on Unifor’s Health & Safety conference! Today we explored safety through an Indigenous lens and held a vital discussion on advocacy vs. discipline. Delegates are heading home with new skills to advocate for safer workplaces across the country.
Delegates at Unifor’s Health & Safety conference are digging deep into the root causes of hazards. Terry Anonson shared skills for managing investigations and afternoon breakout sessions covered a wide range of topics on keeping workers safe.
More than 140 members are in Port Elgin for Unifor’s Health & Safety Conference: Root Cause, Real Change. We’re sharpening the inspection and investigation skills needed to identify the root cause of unsafe conditions and build safer workplaces.
Check out the photo album of this week's joint Unifor-CUPE-USW activist training session:
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Unifor and @lanapayne.bsky.social were proud to be at the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social Awards last night in Toronto. Media workers and investigative journalism are essential to accountability, transparency and democracy, and the work recognized here shows exactly why it matters.
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April 8 is Day of Pink.
We mark the day with pink shirts to make visible our commitment to end bullying and continue the fight for equity, diversity, and acceptance.
This week in Calgary, activists from USW, CUPE, and Unifor gathered to share campaign tactics and build capacity for the referendum.
Joint statement by Unifor and the United Steelworkers: Canada’s industrial future depends on action today
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Unifor members from El Met Industries in Dundas, Ont., are showing what solidarity looks like this long weekend, gathering for a turkey dinner and Easter bunny visit, after last month’s indefinite layoffs following the company applying for creditor protection. ✊✊✊
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It’s time to Protect Canadian Jobs with big, bold strategy.
That’s why, we’re calling on the federal government to enact meaningful policies to ensure that if companies want to sell here, they need to build here.
Learn more: www.protectjobs.ca/build_here
Today marks one year since U.S. auto tariffs hit Canada’s industry and workers are still paying the price with job losses, uncertainty, and ongoing attacks on key sectors. Unifor is turning up the pressure with a clear message: Sell Here. Build Here.
www.unifor.org/news/all-new...
For over a year, Canadian workers have been paying the price for Trump’s tariffs, from job losses to rising costs and growing uncertainty. Canada needs a bigger, bolder fightback strategy. Share the Sell Here, Build Here message: buff.ly/5wS9GMu
This week marks one year since the United States imposed 25% tariffs on the import of Canadian autos, one of the most damaging measures in a series of escalating trade attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump on Canadian workers and industries.
Read Unifor’s statement:
Unifor members across three retirement homes in Nova Scotia have delivered strong strike mandates, signaling their readiness to take action if a fair deal cannot be reached with Shannex.
