{"id":8569,"date":"2020-04-07T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2020-04-07T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:37:31","slug":"clc-letter-to-banks-from-clc-president-hassan-yussuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/?p=8569","title":{"rendered":"CLC &#8211; Letter to banks from CLC President Hassan Yussuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Letter to banks from CLC President Hassan Yussuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hassan2-2016-1000px-1000x500-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8565\" src=\"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hassan2-2016-1000px-1000x500-1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hassan2-2016-1000px-1000x500-1-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hassan2-2016-1000px-1000x500-1-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hassan2-2016-1000px-1000x500-1-960x480.jpg 960w, http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hassan2-2016-1000px-1000x500-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To: Members of the CLC Canadian Council<br \/>\nLabour Council Presidents<\/p>\n<p>Greetings:<\/p>\n<p>I am following up on my letter from yesterday about the targeted campaign the Canadian Labour Congress has launched to call on the big banks and credit card companies to help struggling families by significantly reducing credit card interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread anxiety among Canadians about their health and economic security. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all making sacrifices to get through this difficult time\u00e2\u20ac\u201deveryone except Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s big banks and credit card companies. In the middle of this crisis, they continue to gouge families with sky-high credit card interest rates\u00e2\u20ac\u201doften at about 20% or even higher.<\/p>\n<p>The CLC campaign started today with an online petition which can be found at this link:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/action.canadianlabour.ca\/credit_relief_now\">https:\/\/action.canadianlabour.ca\/credit_relief_now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Yussuff<br \/>\nPresident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to banks from CLC President Hassan Yussuff To: Members of the CLC Canadian Council Labour Council Presidents Greetings: I am following up on my letter from yesterday about the targeted campaign the Canadian Labour Congress has launched to call on the big banks and credit card companies to help struggling families by significantly reducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[63,61,62],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-iam","tag-union"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","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=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8570,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}