Brian Bryant, International President of the 600,000-member IAM Union, and David Chartrand, IAM Canadian General Vice President, issued the following statement regarding President Trump\u2019s 25% tariffs on Canada:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union strongly condemns the Trump administration\u2019s reckless decision to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports. This harmful action threatens jobs, raises prices, and undermines the long-standing economic partnership between the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IAM has always supported trade policies that protect and grow jobs in both nations. But these tariffs are an unjustified attack on a trusted ally.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada is not the enemy. Canada is committed to fair trade practices that support workers and communities. This decision will disrupt industries that rely on integrated supply chains, hurting workers on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IAM represents 600,000 workers, including tens of thousands in aerospace, defense, and manufacturing\u2014industries that depend on strong U.S.-Canada cooperation. These tariffs will destabilize those sectors, putting livelihoods and our nations\u2019 economies at risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs our union has said previously, tariffs should be used strategically to counter bad actors, like China, that manipulate markets and undermine fair trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cTargeting Canada with punitive tariffs is not only misguided, but dangerous. It weakens North American industry and puts working families in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge President Trump to immediately reconsider these tariffs and pursue trade policies that strengthen, rather than weaken, the economic relationship between the United States and Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is one of North America\u2019s 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 regarding President Trump\u2019s 25% tariffs on Canada: \u201cThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union strongly condemns the Trump administration\u2019s reckless decision to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports. This […]<\/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":[63,1499,61,72,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-31800","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-union","14":"post-with-thumbnail","15":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31800","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=31800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31801,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31800\/revisions\/31801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}