{"id":32302,"date":"2025-07-24T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/?p=32302"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:03:29","slug":"iam-canada-the-involvement-of-our-canadian-general-vice-president-praised-by-our-brothers-and-sisters-from-l-3-harris-in-mirabel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/?p=32302","title":{"rendered":"IAM Canada &#8211; The involvement of our Canadian General Vice-President, praised by our brothers and sisters from L-3 Harris in Mirabel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During a visit to L3-Harris on July 16th, the Canadian General Vice-President of the IAM union, David Chartrand, was presented with a scale model of a CF-18 entirely manufactured by members of the union local to recognize his commitment to defending workers and our aerospace industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born from a collaboration between L3 Harris and IAM members, the base of the scale model features the names of the people involved in the project, the IAM logo, and the following message: \u201c<em>In recognition of David Chartrand\u2019s involvement, IAM union leader and passionate ambassador of Quebec and Canadian aerospace.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to this recognition, David Chartrand made the following statement: \u201c<em>It warms my heart to receive such recognition. I want to warmly thank everyone behind this initiative. Representing IAM members, defending their rights, and promoting the improvement of their working and living conditions is for me a passion, a way of life that has inhabited me for 35 years now and is still very much present.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A member of Local 712, David Chartrand began his union involvement in 1993 as a delegate within the Bombardier unit. He has been Canadian General Vice-President of the IAM union since 2021<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw.ca\/the-involvement-of-our-canadian-vice-president-praised-by-our-brothers-and-sisters-from-l-3-harris-in-mirabel\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a visit to L3-Harris on July 16th, the Canadian General Vice-President of the IAM union, David Chartrand, was presented with a scale model of a CF-18 entirely manufactured by members of the union local to recognize his commitment to defending workers and our aerospace industry. Born from a collaboration between L3 Harris and IAM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[63,61,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-32302","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-iam","10":"tag-union","12":"post-with-thumbnail","13":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302","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=32302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32303,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302\/revisions\/32303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}