News Content of Department Women

Women’s Rights, Women’s Bodies Conference largest yet

August 9 - 1:30 PM EDT

From August 5 to 8, over 300 participants from coast to coast to coast gathered for the largest women’s conference Unifor has hosted to date.

Unifor urges paid leave for domestic violence leave in Atlantic

April 24 - 10:15 AM EDT

Unifor is urging New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to make domestic violence leave paid for victims after both provinces introduced protected leave...

Unifor pushes for international gender equity

March 16 - 10:45 AM EDT

Unifor is committed to ending gender-based violence and working with partners around the world to reach that goal

Unifor fights to #SaveLocalNews and end harassment

March 9 - 3:45 PM EST

Unifor members were honored for their work at the Canadian Screen Awards, with some using the opportunity to highlight the crisis in local news.

Unifor women lead our movement

March 8 - 11:30 AM EST

Each and every day, the women of Unifor are building a movement and resisting in the streets, at the ballot box...

Ontario passes new safe access zones protecting abortion services

November 21 - 2:00 PM EST

A new law in Ontario will further guarantee the right to safe abortion services...

Unifor Welcomes Paid Domestic Violence Leave in Bill 148

November 10 - 3:45 PM EST

Unifor welcomes news that the Ontario government intends to amend Bill 148 to include five days...

National Inquiry calls for immediate implementation of TRC recommendations

November 1 - 3:00 PM EDT

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has released its interim report today, detailing the efforts of the first...

Women’s Convention Organizes and Inspires Reclaiming Our Time

November 2 - 7:45 AM EDT

Unifor sent a strong delegation of young women activists to the recent Women’s Convention in Detroit.

New Ontario bill will help protect access to abortion services

October 5 - 12:30 PM EDT

Clinic workers, reproductive rights activists, and patients of sexual health clinics have called for bubble-zone legislation in Ontario for many years

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