Election Results- Delegates for Unifor Online Retired Workers Council
Retired Workers Council Election Notice of Nominations
Turtle Island Series: World Water Day
Dear members, United Nations World Water Day falls on March 22 every year. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the people around the globe living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. Unifor is proud to host a webinar about the state of […]
Retiree Information on Upcoming Webinars
I hope everyone is staying safe and well. I am forwarding information from the Retirees workshop on Fraud, this is not a copy of the slides (the presentation was too large for emailing and is being amended) but a number of documents that were referenced throughout his presentation. Also a reminder regarding the workshop on […]
Retiree Impact – George Markow
Recording Secretary Report – March 12, 2021 Brothers and Sisters I would like to introduce you to Local 707 Retiree, Brother George Markow! George was born April 14, 1921 in Russia to Finnish parents. He was conscripted into the Soviet military and subsequently caught by the Nazi’s and spent 2.5 years as a prisoner of […]
Retiree T4 Concerns?
Over the past week there has been hundreds of phone calls from concerned retirees regarding their T4 slips not being delivered by the company. This has been frustrating for many of you and we understand your concerns. The company has sent out the T4’s as of Friday February 26, 2021 and we expect that many […]
Welcome to Member Mail and Portal
Sisters and Brothers, We have had quite a few requests over the years for our local union to have “our own union email addresses” and we are happy to announce that they are now available for all active members. Your personal email address has been set up and is ready for you to activate. At […]
Retirees Education Update
On behalf of the Retirees Executive Chairperson, Arnie Devaan, we have been able to get some courses made available to our retirees that are able to utilize the zoom platform. Please see attached Dave Millar – Vice President Arnie DeVaan – Retiree Chapter Chairperson
Broken Hearts and Empty Shoes
On November 18 I learned of a rally to be held on Parliament Hill at 11:00 Am on the next day. The rally was about Long Term Care and was dubbed Broken Hearts and Empty Shoes. It was a very heartfelt rally that opened with an aboriginal smudging. This was followed with a lawyer’s viewpoint […]
707 Reporter Summer 2020
Starting with this issue of the 707 Reporter, we will be making it available online for members to view. If you choose to be removed from the mailer, that option will be made available also. The format will be in .pdf version and will look like a link where it says to “download”. We will […]
Vice President’s Report
Friday July 10, 2020 We have some exciting news for all of our members regarding the 707 web page. For the past several months, your leadership have been working on ways to communicate better with our members. Covid-19 has made getting proper information from the leadership out to the membership without physically being able to […]
A Local 707 Retirees’ Chapter meeting
Green Shield Canada, Out-of-Province Coverage -Update
Many of our Retiree’s and Active members have contacted the Union Hall and myself, with regards to the announced changes to the Ontario Health Insurance program (OHIP). They want to know whether or not it will affect our Green Shield Out of Province insurance coverage? As you may have heard, the Ontario government is ending […]