Unifor Campaign to Fix Employment Insurance- Sign Petition

Unifor continues the fight to secure an inclusive, equitable and resilient Employment Insurance (EI) program for workers in Canada through our Fix Employment Insurance campaign. Workers in Ontario continue to be hit the hardest by restructuring, mass layoffs, and workplace closures resulting in an influx of EI claims. With recent changes to the minister responsible […]

Union Benefit Report-February 1st 2024

Sisters & Brothers, It has been an extremely busy start to 2024 in the Benefit Office with 3 layoff weeks in the past month (2023 PP52, 2024 PP3 & PP4), and retirement incentives being offered to members who are pension eligible. Please be patient during this time, as I am returning your calls and/or emails. […]

Body Build Committeeperson Report December 2023

Brothers & Sisters, With the dust settling on bargaining and with the influence of UAW bargaining closing. I believe after reflection our members will come to realize that our agreement coming out of 2023 bargaining is the best to date in the history of our local. Having been a member of the UAW, CAW and […]

Stop Ontario Health Care Privatization- Petition

Brothers and Sisters, Thank you to everyone who attended our Unifor Halton Town Hall meeting on Thursday November 23rd at our Local Union Hall. The meeting was productive and educational, however work on our campaign is not over. It’s no secret that our public health care system is in crisis. The Ford government has put our […]

Unifor Campaign to fix Employment Insurance

Brothers and Sisters, Thanks to the hard work of Unifor members, the federal government has promised changes to Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) system- but they’re not in place yet!  At the start of COVID, the federal government relaxed EI eligibility to improve access to emergency support for those most in need. Without these supports, it […]

Auto Talks 2023:Contract ratification with Ford

Unifor Auto Members, Today our Ford members voted 54% in favour of the new three-year collective agreement with Ford of Canada. Your bargaining team pushed Ford of Canada on every front to deliver a contract that fundamentally transforms pension plans, provides protections during the EV transition and includes the highest wage increases in the history […]

COVID-19 Safety Protocol Reminders

Brothers and Sisters, As the second wave of pandemic goes through Ontario, we must continue to be vigilant to prevent and reduce the spread of this virus in our communities and workplace. The best way for us to do this is follow established COVID-19 safety protocols. The Union leadership and Company management ask that you […]

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 […]