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History & Mission

Unifor is Canada’s largest private sector union, with more than 305,000 members across the country, working in every major sector of the Canadian economy. Unifor brings a modern approach to unionism: adopting new tools, involving and engaging our members, and always looking for new ways to develop the role and approach of our union to meet the demands of the 21st century. Every person of working age in Canada...

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.