{"id":2299,"date":"2014-04-22T04:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T04:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2014-04-22T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T04:19:40","slug":"iam-face-to-face-member-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"IAM Face-to-Face Member Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>IAM Face-to-Face Member Survey<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Who:\u00a0 <\/strong>IAM Members across Canada<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong>\u00a0 Nine out of ten (89%) IAM members in every part of the country said that strong unions are a good thing for Canada. They also believe (91%) that members who receive the benefits of a union contract and get union protection should be required to pay dues (the Rand Formula).<\/p>\n<p>69% of members said that unions should go beyond collective bargaining to be active in their communities. Even higher proportions said that unions need to be active in the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pensions (80%)<\/li>\n<li>Labour Law and Labour Standards (78%)<\/li>\n<li>Health and Safety (75%)<\/li>\n<li>Medicare (54%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as well as other areas of public policy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/imagesCACA16hPH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2300\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/imagesCACA16hPH.jpg\" alt=\"imagesCACA16hPH\" width=\"286\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why:<\/strong>\u00a0 Unions are the strongest voices for Canadian workers and their families.\u00a0\u00a0 The IAM and other unions need to stand up against the power of corporate greed and its captive politicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When: <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>We need to continue to engage our members and their families now.\u00a0 Canadian union members are facing the fight of their lives in provincial and federal elections over the next eighteen months.\u00a0 Working people need to be informed, involved and active.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Fightback-_7rev.pdf\">https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Fightback-_7rev.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAM Face-to-Face Member Survey Who:\u00a0 IAM Members across Canada What:\u00a0 Nine out of ten (89%) IAM members in every part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}