{"id":843,"date":"2022-05-18T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/?p=843"},"modified":"2022-05-18T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T04:49:28","slug":"members-t-ig-machine-are-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Members At IG Machine Are Back To Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The locked out members from IG Machine have ratified an agreement and are now back at work.<br \/>\nThe agreement was accepted by 62% of the members with 33 of 34 eligible voters. IG Machine locked out the members last summer.<br \/>\nThey had endured a summer of extreme heat and wildfires followed by a rainy fall and a cold winter.<br \/>\nThe members were supported by locals from all over North America.<br \/>\nThey were visited by other unions, some of which set up barbeques and other events.<br \/>\nNegotiated gains were improved language and wages for apprentices, increased safety allowance and improved vacation.<br \/>\nA complete union based benefit plan, full retro for the two years of negotiations and financial increases of .80\/hr., 2%, 2.9%, 3%, 2.5%, 2.4% and 2.4%.<br \/>\nOverall the cost to the company and the membership far exceeds any gains either side may have achieved, the members stood strong together through these trying times.<br \/>\nThe strength in the solidarity of these members is something the all members should be proud of.<br \/>\nBusiness Rep. Andrew Tricker and the members put in a lot of hard work and hours to achieve this agreement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The locked out members from IG Machine have ratified an agreement and are now back at work. The agreement was accepted by 62% of the members with 33 of 34 eligible voters. IG Machine locked out the members last summer. They had endured a summer of extreme heat and wildfires followed by a rainy fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bargaining","category-local-lodge","category-solidarity","category-union-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw692.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}