{"id":4555,"date":"2020-10-30T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:29:50","slug":"canadas-unions-hosting-virtual-action-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=4555","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s unions hosting virtual Action Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People from across Canada will be lobbying MPs next week, in the first large-scale virtual lobbying event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic exposed deep disparities and vulnerabilities in our economy and society. It has also radically changed the lives of people across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workers want the federal government to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianplan.ca\/action-week2020\/what-we-are-calling-for\/\">disaster-proof the economy<\/a>&nbsp;by committing to investments in job creation, pharmacare and child care, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLC President Hassan Yussuff is available to comment on the Action Week priorities and to discuss the importance of hosting such a large-scale virtual lobbying event, even in the midst of the current crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To arrange an interview, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLC Media Relations<br><a href=\"mailto:media@clcctc.ca\">media@clcctc.ca<\/a><br>Office: 613-526-7426<br>Cell: 613-355-1962<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadalabour.ca\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.canadalabour.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.canadalabour.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People from across Canada will be lobbying MPs next week, in the first large-scale virtual lobbying event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic exposed deep disparities and vulnerabilities in our economy and society. It has also radically changed the lives of people across Canada. Workers want the federal government to&nbsp;disaster-proof the economy&nbsp;by committing to investments in job creation, pharmacare and child care, among others. CLC President Hassan Yussuff is available to comment on the Action Week priorities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}