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On February 28, Unifor submitted an intervention to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regarding Rogers Broadcasting Limited’s television license renewal application.

Unifor represents approximately 550 Rogers employees at the company’s English-language City TV stations as well as at Rogers Sportsnet and The Shopping Channel. Unifor also represents Rogers employees working at various OMNI ethnic television stations in Ontario and British Columbia.

VANCOUVER, March 6, 2014 /CNW/ - Unionized container truck drivers who service the Port of Metro Vancouver will begin discussions with mediator Vince Ready this morning to avert a strike. Unifor lobbied successfully to get Ready appointed to guide negotiations, but there is still work to do to resolve the truck drivers' long-standing concerns.

TORONTO, March 4, 2014 /CNW/ - The decision by Chrysler to withdraw its request for financial assistance from the federal and provincial governments as part of its proposals to invest in its assembly plants in Brampton and Windsor is regrettable, Unifor National President Jerry Dias says.

VANCOUVER, March 3, 2014 /CNW/ - Unifor has served 72-hour notice of legal strike action on behalf of its container truck driver members in Vancouver. A strike will commence if agreement on the outstanding issues cannot be reached by Thursday, March 6 at noon.

Volume 2, No. 4

On International Women’s Day, Unifor’s 86,000 women are standing up for our rights – the right to have a union, the right to equal pay, reproductive rights, the right to good jobs which includes affordable childcare and a world safe from violence.

Unions are a big reason women’s equality in Canada has advanced

When right-wing politicians attack unions, they also attack an important catalyst for delivering women’s equality. Unifor will not stand idly by while women are under assault and our equality is eroded.

Women need unions and unions need women.

TORONTO, Feb. 28, 2014 /CNW/ - On Monday, nearly 30 Registered Practical Nurses from across Ontario, members of Unifor, will be at Queen's Park to talk to members of the legislature about their concerns about health care in the province and the role of their profession.

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, March 1, 2014 /CNW/ - Members of Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers' Association (VCTA) voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action this morning. Truckers cited a lack of progress at the bargaining table for taking the vote.

"Our members have sent a very clear message: enough is enough," said Paul Johal, President of Unifor-VCTA.

OTTAWA, Feb. 28, 2014 /CNW/ - Word that provinces will not have to cut existing job training programs to access the federal government's Canada Job Grant program is a welcome step forward, Canada's largest union in the private sector says.

"We need more job programs so that our youth can get a start in life, not fewer, and we certainly don't need one program cannibalizing one another," Unifor National President Jerry Dias said.

TORONTO, Feb. 28, 2014 /CNW/ - On Monday, nearly 30 Registered Practical Nurses from across Ontario, members of Unifor, will be at Queen's Park to talk to members of the legislature about their concerns about health care in the province and the role of their profession.