{"id":31671,"date":"2025-02-16T22:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/?p=31671"},"modified":"2025-02-16T22:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:17:32","slug":"transportation-district-140-solidarity-and-unity-at-mtu-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/?p=31671","title":{"rendered":"Transportation District 140 &#8211; Solidarity and Unity at MTU Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, February 13th, 2025, a handout of solidarity posters and pins took place at the MTU facility to congratulate the members on their strong strike vote mandate from the day prior and celebrate their unity. Members of the bargaining committee, Local 764, District 140 of the IAM, and representation from the IAM International were present and were warmly welcomed by a supportive membership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000012136-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31663 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000012136-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000012136-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000012136-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000012136-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000012136-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1000012136-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brother Dave Flowers, President and Directing General Chairperson (PDGC) for District 140, and Tania Canniff, General Chairperson for District 140, were there to show their support. The event also included Christy Slauenwhite, Recording Secretary for Local 764, David Marshall, Secretary-Treasurer for Local 764, and Chris Cheung, Health and Safety Coordinator for District 140 and President of Local 764. Steve Prinz, IAM Canadian Representative from the International, also joined to show solidarity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-8ceb1607-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31666 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-8ceb1607-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-8ceb1607-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-8ceb1607-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-8ceb1607-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-8ceb1607-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2-8ceb1607-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming mandate shows management that the skilled membership at MTU stands united in their pursuit to get the fair contract they deserve and are prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, February 13th, 2025, a handout of solidarity posters and pins took place at the MTU facility to congratulate the members on their strong strike vote mandate from the day prior and celebrate their unity. Members of the bargaining committee, Local 764, District 140 of the IAM, and representation from the IAM International were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[63,1499,61,72,1501,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-31671","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-d140","10":"tag-iam","11":"tag-labour","12":"tag-mtu","13":"tag-union","15":"post-with-thumbnail","16":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31673,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31671\/revisions\/31673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}