{"id":4336,"date":"2016-10-24T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2016-10-24T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:30:30","slug":"clc-government-repeals-anti-union-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=4336","title":{"rendered":"CLC &#8211; Government repeals anti-union legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Government repeals anti-union legislation<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/377-EN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4337\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/377-EN.jpg\" alt=\"377-en\" width=\"1698\" height=\"1131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/377-EN.jpg 1698w, https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/377-EN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/377-EN-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/377-EN-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/377-EN-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1698px) 100vw, 1698px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Parliament voted to adopt Bill C-4, a government bill that repeals the previous Conservative government\u2019s controversial anti-union bills C-377 and C-525.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk made good on the Liberals\u2019 election promise to repeal the bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that the government has done the right thing and overturned bills C-377 and C-525 and we are grateful to Minister Mihychuk for her leadership in repealing this legislation and restoring the balance in Canadian labour relations,\u201d said CLC President Hassan Yussuff. <a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1352\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images.jpg 210w, https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/images-60x68.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bills C-377 and C-525 were ideologically-motivated and designed by the former Conservative government to undermine the ability of unions to advocate for workers and to make it more difficult for Canadians in federally regulated workplaces to join a union, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadian unions work hard to uphold values like fairness by protecting jobs, promoting health and safety in the workplace, and advocating on behalf of all Canadian workers. These bills were designed to interfere with that work,\u201d said Yussuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government repeals anti-union legislation On Wednesday, Parliament voted to adopt Bill C-4, a government bill that repeals the previous Conservative [&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-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}