LUNENBURG, N.S. – Approximately 260 Unifor members at High Liner Foods in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, have ratified a new collective agreement, securing significant wage increases and improvements to working conditions.
“This agreement delivers meaningful improvements for workers at High Liner Foods, recognizing the value of their work and strengthening important protections and benefits,” said Unifor Atlantic Regional Director Jennifer Murray. “Members stood together with a clear set of priorities, and their solidarity helped secure this strong deal.”
Unifor members at Active Dynamics have ratified a new three-year agreement after showing solidarity on a picket line for 17 days.
“Congratulations to the bargaining committee for this win,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne. “Active Dynamics members stood together, and their determination sent a clear message that workers deserve fair wages and good benefits.”
The unit voted on the deal on Nov. 6, which includes improvements to wages and monetary items.
Stellantis’ sale of Brampton Assembly Plant is a betrayal to workers, a blow to Canada’s industrial economy with the loss of thousands of jobs and production capacity, and a failure
MONTREAL — Unifor Quebec welcomes today’s Quebec Court of Appeal ruling in favour of Unifor Local 177 in the case involving CRH Canada Group’s cement plant in Joliette. By overturning the Superior Court’s judgment and reinstating the decision of the Administrative Labour Tribunal (ALT), the Court confirmed that, in the circumstances of this case, remote work cannot be used to circumvent the anti-scab provisions of Quebec’s Labour Code.
For most people, finding a washroom at work is something they never think about. For many workers, it shapes the whole day. It decides how much they drink, when they can step away and whether the facilities are safe to use at all. On World Toilet Day, November 19, Unifor is calling for a clean, safe washroom for every worker.
The United Nations has dedicated this year’s World Toilet Day to sanitation and gender equality, under the banner “Safe toilets. Equal futures.”
SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD — The 40 school bus drivers at Autobus Venise, represented by Unifor Local 700, voted 74% in favour of ratifying a tentative agreement reached with their employer during conciliation on November 5. Ratification ends the strike that began on October 22. Members are scheduled to return to work on Monday, November 9, allowing school bus service to resume.
TORONTO- Unifor Local 1090 members at the Pickering and Ajax casinos have ended their strike with the ratification of a collective agreement with Great Canadian Entertainment.
The just over 900 members are set to return to work on Monday November 9, 2026, after voting 84.7% in favour of the tentative agreement, with an 82% voter turnout.
OTTAWA – Canada’s proposed 2026 federal budget opts for big spending to boost business growth, including investment incentives and tax cuts, but must deliver benefits for working Canadians.
From October 4 – 7, 2026 nearly 400 people gathered at Unifor’s Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, Ontario for Unifor’s National Women’s Conference.
Watch how a perfect storm of economic factors has pushed B.C.'s forestry industry—and the thousands of good jobs it creates—to the brink of collapse. Unifor members are fighting for forestry and proposing solutions to keep forestry communities alive.
TORONTO—Ahead of Black Friday and the busy holiday shopping season Amazon workers from facilities across the Greater Toronto Area launched a new organizing initiative with Unifor today, standing together for safe jobs, fair pay and respect at work.
“Amazon workers want and deserve better working conditions, safer jobs, fairer pay, dignity and respect,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne. “That’s what this fight is about—the courage of workers to come together and challenge one of the world’s biggest and most profitable corporations and demand better.”
SARNIA—Unifor Local 914 members at Diamond Petrochemical Canada have ratified a new four-year collective agreement that delivers wage increases, a signing bonus, a new retirement benefit account and improved benefits.
“Energy workers keep this country running, and they deserve contracts that reflect the value of their work,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne. “This agreement shows what members can win when they stand together and bargain with the strength of the energy pattern behind them.”
TORONTO—Building on the success of organizing efforts in British Columbia, Unifor representatives will join Amazon workers on Wednesday, Nov. 4 to launch a new organizing initiative to unionize sites across the Greater Toronto Area.
Unifor will support the workers who are uniting for a safe pace of work, fair pay, and respect on the job.
FREDERICTON—Changes to how NB Power prices electricity were imposed without consulting the workers and communities with the most to lose, putting industrial jobs at risk, warns Unifor in a letter to Energy Minister René Legacy.
The Honourable René Legacy Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy Department of Energy Chancery Place, 5th Floor P.O. Box 6000 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1
Via email
Dear Minister Legacy:
I once again want to thank you and your government for the work that is being done to support our members at the Nackawic Mill. I remain confident that together we will find a solution for this workplace, our members and the community.
On Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, Unifor joined early childhood educators, parents, labour leaders, and community advocates on the lawn of Queen’s Park in Toronto for the Care Counts Rally for Early Learning and Child Care.
The action amplified the call for Premier Doug Ford and the Ontario government to step up with necessary provincial funding for early learning and child care.
The 2026 Unifor B.C. Regional Council (BCRC) met in Victoria from Oct. 23 to 25 with the fight to protect Canadian jobs from the U.S. trade war at the centre of the debates, reports and actions.
REGINA—Unifor leaders are meeting with government and Opposition MLAs in Regina this week to call for fairer labour laws and safer workplaces.
The lobby runs from Oct. 26 to 29. It focuses on three issues: fair bargaining, workplace health and safety, and how workplace deaths and serious injuries are investigated.
VANCOUVER—The 445 room attendants, servers, banquet staff and other workers at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver will see wage increases of between 10% and 23% over the next three years, after members of Unifor Local 114 voted in favour of a new collective agreement on Oct. 27, 2026.
"Hotel workers make this city run, and they deserve a fair share of what they help build," said Unifor National President Lana Payne. "These members stood together and won real raises, better benefits and stronger protections on the job."
On Monday October 26, 2026, Unifor National President Lana Payne presented to both a Senate and a House of Commons committee studying Bill C-39.
Payne’s testimony centered on the infringement on the right to strike included in the bill, and its predictable knock-on effect of curtailing collective bargaining itself.
Bill C-39 introduces a new mechanism so that the Minister of Labour can unilaterally and immediately end a strike in federally regulated sectors, end negotiations, and send the contract to an arbitrator to decide.
As the Trump Administration continues its nonsensical tariff attack on Canada’s auto industry, it is becoming increasingly clear the only winner in this trade war is China.
News that Stellantis intends to build some electrified Jeep vehicles in China, with plans to export them around the world including Canada, is another gut punch to Unifor members at the Brampton Assembly Plant and the Canadian auto industry.
Unifor Local 700 members at Autobus Venise in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield in Quebec have been on strike since October 22, 2026, following an impasse in negotiations over wages and employer demands for significant concessions on guaranteed hours of work.
Guaranteed hours were central to the settlement that ended the previous labour dispute three years ago. Now, the employer is seeking to roll back those protections, threatening the stable, predictable income members rely on.
VICTORIA—Canada’s largest union in the private sector will re-double its commitment to workers’ rights, reconciliation, and human rights during the term of the next provincial government.
VICTORIA—Unifor members, their families and allies will rally Friday at the legislature to raise their voices for a government that protects good jobs and strengthens the public services British Columbians rely on.
WHAT: Protect Canadian Jobs rally
WHO: Unifor National President Lana Payne, Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarrigle, Unifor members from every economic sector
TORONTO—Unifor welcomes the $2.5 billion investment from the federal and Ontario governments to support the country’s auto industry, hit hard by the ongoing U.S. trade war on Canada, and is urging government to focus on sustaining threatened auto assembly operations in Brampton.
“Our auto sector and the workers who depend on it have been directly targeted by the Trump administration. Support by both the federal and Ontario governments is essential to see workers and the industry through this crisis,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne.
