Unifor’s Locals are on the front lines as we work to ensure the safety of our members throughout this pandemic. This page is meant to help Local leadership and health and safety reps as they navigate this new and fast-changing environment.
On the page, you will find the resources you need to work with your employers to ensure safe working places for your members, as well as information specific to your sector.
As always, your National union is year to provide the supports you need. Your National Representative can help you access any additional resources you may need.
Be sure to check back regularly for new documents and updates, and the check out the Health and Safety tab on the website.
Resources for Local Unions
- Template letter to employers and managers. If your employer or workplace manager has not yet taken action to address the COVID-19 pandemic, use this template letter to request a meeting or modified workplace practices to ensure the health and safety of all workers.
- Financial Supports for Local Unions with Paid Staff - Get the factsheet
- Financial supports for local unions that rent offices, own buildings, or pay a mortgage - Get the factsheet
- Union Activist’s Guide to Online Meetings
- September 18 Letter: This Fall, Keep it Small
SECTOR RESOURCES
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on every workplace across this country – but the nature of that impact changes from sector to sector.
Below are resources you need to address specific needs in your sector.
AIR TRANSPORTATION UPDATES
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for air transportation workers
- Government Support for the Air Transportation Industry: Virtual Meeting Request
- Restarting the Economy: What Air Transportation Workers Need to Know
- Letter to Deputy Prime Minister Freeland Re: Strong, enforceable conditions on corporate support packages
AUTO AND IPS UPDATES
ENERGY UPDATES
FORESTRY UPDATES
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for forestry workers
- Forestry Letter to Minister Qualtrough
- Restarting the Economy: What forestry workers need to know
HEALTH CARE UPDATES
- Memo to Unifor long-term care members in Ontario related to testing - February 17, 2021
- Ontario Directive 5 Access to N-95 - February 2021
- Urgent memo to health care members regarding COVID-19
- Memo for Unifor health care members regarding Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Letter to Chief Medical Officer regarding Directive Number 5 for Public Hospitals
- Unifor calls on the federal government for emergency drug coverage for all
- Letter to Premier Ford regarding ineligibility of Pandemic Pay to many healthcare workers
- Letter to Ombudsman Dubé regarding Investigation into the Oversight of Long-Term Care Homes
- Restarting the Economy: What workers in the long-term care sector need to know
- New Directive #5 Rules - October 6, 2020
- Memo to Unifor long-term care members in Ontario related to government directives and announcements - October 19, 2020
- Memo to Unifor healthcare care members in Ontario related to workplace rights and staff redeployment - October 19, 2020
- Memo to Unifor health care members in Nova Scotia to government directives and announcements - November 2, 2020
- Combatting Compassion Fatigue Memo - November 12, 2020
HOSPITALITY AND GAMING UPDATES
- Hospitality and Gaming COVID-19 Memo
- Download this memo
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for hospitality workers
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for gaming workers
- Restarting the Economy: What hospitality workers need to know
- Restarting the Economy: What gaming workers need to know
- British Columbia Letter: WorkSafeBC Presumptive Coverage for COVID-19 Infections June 16 2020
- British Columbia Submission: Unifor Submission to BC government Hospitality and Gaming Sector August 10 2020
- British Columbia Submission: Unifor Submission to the BC Tourism Task Force October 8 2020
- British Columbia Submission: Unifor Submission tothe BC Tourism Task Force October 21 2020
- Letter to Deputy Prime Minister Freeland Re: Strong, enforceable conditions on corporate support packages
MANUFACTURING UPDATES
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for manufacturing workers
- Restarting the Economy: What manufacturing workers need to know
- Restarting the Economy: What food and beverage processing workers need to know
MEDIA UPDATES
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for media workers
- Restarting the Economy: What media workers need to know
POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION UPDATES
RAIL UPDATES
RETAIL SECTOR UPDATES
- Retail COVID-19 Memo
- Download this memo
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for retail workers
- Restarting the Economy: What Retail workers need to know
TELECOMMUNICATIONS UPDATES
- Letter to telecommunications members - COVID-19
- Restarting the Economy: What workers in the telecommunications sector need to know
TRANSIT UPDATES
- Transit COVID-19 Memo to Staff
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for the transit and passenger rail workers?
- What the Coronavirus (COVID-19) means for student transportation workers?
- Restarting the Economy: What road passenger transport and urban transit workers need to know
TRANSPORTATION
MINES, METALS AND MINERALS
- Mines, Metals and Minerals Workplaces and COVID-19
- Restarting the Economy: What mines, metals and minerals workers need to know
WAREHOUSING AND LOGISTICS