Latest News Around the Local
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Notice of Election Standing Committees
(ALL UNITS) TERM – THREE (3) YEARS 2019-2022 EACH COMMITTEE HAS THREE (3) TO BE ELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICES Lindsay Gilliss-Lapp...
Recreation Events
The Recreation Committee has several events planed over the next few months, 2 Unifor Nights with the Falcons, 100...
UAW Strike Strike Continues
The UAW Strike against General Motors has now entered the third week. Although progress has been made it looks like...
Invitation to Attend Niagara Election Organizing Meeting
Member To Member Meeting Unifor local 199 is hosting a Member to Member meeting on Wednesday, October 2 from...
McMaster Labour Studies Graduation
McMaster Unifor Graduation 2019 On Saturday 28th September 2019 McMaster University held it’s 5th Unifor/McMaster graduation. Wayne Lewchuck who played an instrumental...
Upcoming Standing Committee Elections
The election for Unifor Local 199’s Standing Committees has been announced and will be taking place Wednesday, October 16th, 2019....
Standing Committee Elections
STANDING COMMITTEE ELECTIONS Unifor Local 199 has scheduled an election for our Standing Committees. Each Committee has three (3) to...
GM Announcement 19th September
Plant Director, Carolyne Watts announced today, Thursday, September 19, that commencing Monday, September 23, both Gen V and HFV6 will...
GM Chair Report September 18th 2019
GM CHAIR REPORT, September 18th 2019 The strike in the U.S. will start impacting our production in the V8 today...
Labour Day Pictures
Labour Day 2019 – St Catharines The 73rd Merriton Labour Day Parade was held on Monday 2nd September 2019, we...
Bounce Back Ontario
Feeling low? Stressed? Anxious? BounceBack can help! BounceBack: Reclaim your health is a free skill-building program designed to help teens...
Unifor FAQ – COVID 19 Worker Income Protection Benefit
Unifor FAQ – COVID 19 Worker Income Protection Benefit On April 29, 2021, the Government of Ontario passed legislation mandating...
Labour Day 2019
Labour Day 2019 – St Catharines The 73rd Merriton Labour Day Parade will be held on Monday 2rd September 2019. ...
Safety Star Reboot
Safety Star Reboot The Safety Star program is getting a much-needed overhaul, making it more useful, interesting and effective. An...
FirstOntario Community Partner Since 1949
The Credit Union In today’s society of fast and easy access to credit cards, lines of credit and payment plans...
From the Hall, June 2019
From The Hall Brothers and Sisters, it is with pleasure that I write my first report as Vice President of...
Unifor’s position on BBS – Behaviour Based Safety
Health and Safety Report , June 24th 2019 Unifor National Union and Local 199 GM H&S reps are strongly opposed to...
GM Holiday Pay June 27th
ANNUAL VACATION PAY AND VACATION PAY DEFERRAL GUIDANCE The following is intended to clarify the Annual Vacation Pay deposit and...
Pride Events
Support Pride events in your area! 2019 Pride Events Across Canada. Pride Niagara Click on the link below to download...
GM Oshawa First Canvas Sign Up
June 14th 2019 The First Canvas for retirements in Oshawa was completed. A combined total of 1,300 letters were sent...
Children Shouldn’t Work in Fields, but on Dreams!
Yet today, 152 million children are still in child labour. Although child labour occurs in almost every sector, seven out...
Unifor National NEWS
The unifor National Union regularly produces news stories about important events and issues that are of interest to our membership, the public, academics, journalists and others. These news stories are posted on the CAW website with the most recent stories at the top. For current news articles and links visit the following link
Many of these stories are also prepared as press releases and sent out over the Canada News Wire. Press releases syndicated through the CNW Group can be found on the Newswire.ca website.
Archived Editions 199 News
Please click on the links below to open the 199 News
- CAW Local 199 News – November / December 2008
- CAW Local 199 News – September – October 08
- CAW Local 199 News – May / June 08
- CAW Local 199 News – January February 2008
- CAW Local 199 News – December 2007