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Farm workers at Highline Mushrooms have overwhelmingly voted in favour of ratifying their first union contract.

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, March 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over 3,000 members of the UFCW 1518 Community Health sector, who provide home care to vulnerable people across British Columbia,...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Workers at an East Hastings cannabis shop are venturing into green territory after a union vote last week. Together, staff decided to...

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Feb. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The BC Bud Union, a division of UFCW 1518, has grown its power significantly after 14 cannabis workers at the Original Farm Hillside...

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Nov. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A Budtender in Victoria will be going back to work on Friday after he was fired three weeks ago. Niko Kruzel works as a Budtender at...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UFCW 1518 is taking the cases of several Uber Drivers to the BC Labour Relations Board by filing an unfair labour practice complaint...

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, Sept. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UFCW 1518 is calling on the operator of FreshCo Kamloops to grant store workers a statutory holiday on September 30 in...

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, Aug. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With the provincial government announcing that it is developing a permanent paid sick leave program for all BC workers, UFCW 1518...

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, July 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UFCW 1518 is calling on Interior Health to re-examine its decision of reducing care times and to change its scheduling program to...

VICTORIA, British Columbia, June 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Workers at Trees Cannabis have voted to join other budtenders as part of the BC Bud division of UFCW 1518. These workers have been...