2025 Family Education Program

Greetings,

Does a family vacation on the shores of beautiful Lake Huron in Ontario at a resort-like facility where accommodations and food are all looked after at no cost to your members or the local sound too good to be true? Unifor’s Family Education Program offers this and so much more.

The Unifor Family Education Program is funded by the National Union. There is no cost to the Local Union and you are not required to have PEL negotiated in your collective agreements in order to have members participate in the program.

The Department will be hosting two sessions in 2025.

• Sunday, July 6^th to Sunday, July 13^th inclusive
• Sunday, July 20^th to Sunday, July 27^th inclusive (ASL interpretation available)

Click HERE for application package. If you are interested in participating in the Family Education program complete the application and return it via email to family.education@unifor.org no later than Friday, March 14^th, 2025.

Members are not eligible if they attended the Family Education Program within the last (7) seven years. The program is open to members and their immediate families (spouse/partner and dependent children up to and including 18 years of age only). This does not include grandchildren, nieces, nephews etc.

Successful applicants will be notified beginning the week of April 7^th, 2025.

If you require further information, please send an email to family.education@unifor.org and one of our Administration staff will get back to you.

I look forward to meeting and sharing this wonderful experience your members and their families.

In solidarity,

Robin Fairchild Clennell
Director, Education Department

2022 Scholarship Application Important Dates:

June 10: Application period closes

July 18: Scholarship recipients announced

Using the Online Application go to:

 https://www.unifor.org/resources/education/scholarships

Your application must be submitted using the online application form
NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2022.

Details about eligibility and the full application procedure are listed
on the online application page.

Scholarship application package

Please ensure that you have READ THE INSTRUCTIONS carefully, and have the following documents ready on your device for upload with your application.

1. Current high school transcript (children of Unifor members only)
2. Reference letter
3. Local Union Officer signature form
4. Essay Answers

 PLEASE NOTE:  Any applications missing any of the required documents, will result in
an error message and cannot be submitted.  Please ensure you have all documents
available before submitting.

Questions?  

Email: scholarships@unifor.org

Greetings,

As most of you know, on July 17, 2020 the Federal government announced that the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program would be extended until December 19, 2020, with new rules being proposed for the remaining program periods (Periods 5 through 10).

The new rules drastically change both the eligibility requirements and benefit levels, and will have significant ramifications for most of our members whose wages are currently being subsidized by the CEWS.

The new program rules are highly complex and confusing to understand, given the wide range of possible values for the CEWS benefit and the calculations needed to determine what that value is for any particular organization.

In the vast majority of cases, eligible recipients of the CEWS will see a significant reduction in their wage subsidies starting with Period 7 (August 30 – September 26).

The program also significantly impacts furloughed workers by stipulating that any worker on paid leave will only receive subsidies equal to what they would otherwise receive under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and/or Employment Insurance (EI).

Unifor’s Education department will be holding an online webinar on the new CEWS rules next week, on Wednesday, September 16 at 2 p.m. ET.

Those interested can register here: https://onlineeducation.unifor.org/cews_0826_20200916

In solidarity,
Jerry Dias
President