Collaborations and Partnerships

Backpack Program

In September the United Ways of Ajax-Pickering-Uxbridge and Oshawa-Whitby-Clarington-Brock & Scugog partnered to deliver 2250 backpacks filled with school supplies distributed through elementary and secondary schools in the Durham Region.

Durham Child Nutrition Project

As a member of the Durham Child Nutrition Project, we continue to work with the co-ordinator to provide healthy breakfast and snack programs at participating schools in Ajax, Pickering and Uxbridge. We sit on the sub-committee with respect to allocation of funds to the schools and the advisory committee.

Union Counselling Program

Training & Capacity Building

Union Peer Counseling

Workers Helping Workers

The Union Counselling Program is the result of a partnership between the Durham Region Labour Council and United Way of Ajax-Pickering-Uxbridge. The program trains union members about community resources and social issues so they can link union members and their families in need with the available social services, many of which are funded by United Way.  These members are also able to alert unions to social problems that particularly affect their workplace so the union can consult or bargain with employers to improve conditions.

Labour Community Services

Labour Appreciation Dinner

Last year marked the first Labour Appreciation Dinner... "Across the country, the United Way raises over 350 million dollars every year.  Close to one-half of that money comes from union sources.  It comes from unionized workers.  This money is raised thanks to union staff and volunteers. Why is the labour movement so committed to United Way’s mission? We do it because of our values. We do it because of our strong roots in our communities. We do it because making a positive difference for people, has always been our mission,” CLC President Ken Georgetti addressed the packed-out room full of local trade unionists and the two United Way chapters in Durham Region: Oshawa-Whitby-Clarington and Ajax-Pickering-Uxbridge.  Among some of the unions in attendence were; CAW222 Oshawa, CAW1090 Ajax, PWU Darlington and Pickering Nuclear Plant, CUPE1764 Durham, CUPE53 of Whitby and Uxbridge, OPSEU331 Whitby Mental Health , IBEW636 Veridian Corp. in Pickering, IAM 905 of Messier-Dowty Ajax, ONA51 Lakeridge Health Oshawa.

Ken Georgetti, President of Canadian Labour Council, keynote speaker at the Labour Appreciation Dinner.