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Walmart Canada is a Canadian retail corporation, discount retailer and the Canadian subsidiary of the U.S.-based multinational retail conglomerate Walmart. Headquartered in Mississauga , Ontario , it was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company .
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers [1] in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and health care.
Walmart's anti-union policies also extend beyond the United States. The documentary Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, shows one successful unionization of a Walmart store in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada, in 2004, but Walmart closed the store five months later because the company did not approve of the new "business plan" a union would require.
You might have heard that non-union workers at Walmarts around the country have been striking. One of the workers' demands is to stop management retaliation against employees who speak up, and in ...
This is a list of trade unions in Canada, broken down by affiliation. [1] Canadian Labour Congress. National Affiliates. Air Canada Pilots Association; Alliance of ...
By the late 1960s, steps began to be taken to merge the two unions, which had a history of rivalry and competition for membership due to their overlapping membership categories. In Canada, the most dynamic and progressive leadership came from the leaders and organizers of the former United Packinghouse Workers, such as Fred Dowling , known as ...
Unifor stated that among the reasons for leaving were disagreements with the CLC over the rights of workers to choose what union should represent them, and concerns Unifor had about US-based unions working against the rights of their members, as well as two instances of US-based unions interfering in elections for Canadian union local ...
Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA); Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU); American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM/CFM); Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union (BCTGM)