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History & Mission

Unifor is Canada’s largest private sector union, representing over 320,000 members across the country in nearly every major industry, including manufacturing, media, telecommunications, health care, transportation, retail, and natural resources. Its members range from factory workers and airline employees to journalists and energy sector professionals, making Unifor a truly diverse and inclusive organization...

Why Unifor?

There are many good reasons. Here are just a few: Part of a team: Workers band together in a union to bargain collectively for better working conditions. Collective bargaining ends with a collective agreement – a legally binding contract between the employer and employees. The collective agreement outlines working conditions, including benefits, wages, hours of work and much more. Job security: If you are a union member, and you’re fired without just cause, your union can get your job back. If you’re not unionized and you’re fired for no good reason, there is nothing in the law that forces your employer to hire you back. You could file a wrongful dismissal suit, but the only remedy is money. Higher pay: Jobs covered by a union collective agreement pay an average of 32% more than jobs that are not. Unionized Workers Are Better Off: “It has long been known that unionized employees make more than non-union workers, a fact confirmed by this new earnings data from the Labour Force Survey”, says Statistics Canada in its summer 1998 Labour Force Update.