{"id":881,"date":"2014-09-02T19:11:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T23:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/?p=881"},"modified":"2014-09-02T19:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T23:15:41","slug":"the-union-advantage-across-canada-provincial-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"The Union Advantage Across Canada (Provincial Breakdown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianlabour.ca\/about-clc\/union-advantage-across-canada-provincial-breakdown\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Canada&#8217;s Union Advantage<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There were 4,694,600 union members working everywhere across Canada in 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about 31% of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workforce. \u00c2\u00a0Those workers earned, on average, <strong>$5.17\/hour more<\/strong> because their unions negotiated fair wages and work hours. Those extra dollars on workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 paycheques stay in the local economy. They get spent at local businesses, where they sustain jobs, and support community services that add to everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Union Advantage There were 4,694,600 union members working everywhere across Canada in 2013 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about 31% of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workforce. \u00c2\u00a0Those workers earned, on average, $5.17\/hour more because their unions negotiated fair wages and work hours. Those extra dollars on workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 paycheques stay in the local economy. They get spent at local businesses, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,51,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletins-en","category-news","category-union-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}