Brian Bryant, International President of the 600,000-member IAM Union, and David Chartrand, IAM Canadian General Vice President, issued the following statement following a pause of proposed U.S.-Canadian tariffs.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As the largest aerospace and defense labor union in the United States and Canada, the IAM Union is relieved that destructive tariffs between our two allied countries are being paused. A new path forward\u00e2\u20ac\u201done that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put U.S. and Canadian workers in a needless cycle of worrying about job loss due to tariff threats between allies\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis possible. This moment offers the perfect opportunity for workers and unions from both countries to be a part of the solution moving forward.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For decades, we have seen millions of good-paying, high-skilled U.S. and Canadian jobs outsourced to countries with little to no labor rights. Thanks to bad trade deals, tens of thousands of good IAM Union aerospace and defense jobs have become low-wage jobs in Mexico, while China has used forced technology offsets to create its own aerospace industry. This race-to-the-bottom model is being replicated by other bad actors across the globe \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hurting all workers, as well as our shared national security.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have a chance right now to pull all stakeholders \u00e2\u20ac\u201c government, business and labor \u00e2\u20ac\u201c together to forge a real, comprehensive strategy to protect and grow critical manufacturing here in the United States and Canada. Workers on the both sides of the border deserve to drive policy conversations about their livelihoods, not be pawns in a larger political discussion.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is one of North America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest and most diverse industrial trade unions, representing approximately 600,000 active and retired members in the aerospace, defense, airlines, railroad, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries across the United States and Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brian Bryant, International President of the 600,000-member IAM Union, and David Chartrand, IAM Canadian General Vice President, issued the following statement following a pause of proposed U.S.-Canadian tariffs. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As the largest aerospace and defense labor union in the United States and Canada, the IAM Union is relieved that destructive tariffs between our two allied countries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[63,67,61,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-31630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-dl140","10":"tag-iam","11":"tag-union","13":"post-with-thumbnail","14":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/12_04_2024_FairTrade-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31632,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630\/revisions\/31632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}