{"id":8785,"date":"2020-05-27T19:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T02:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/?p=8785"},"modified":"2020-05-27T19:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T02:52:43","slug":"iamaw-canada-pickthall-iam-canada-commend-government-on-10-day-sick-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/?p=8785","title":{"rendered":"IAMAW Canada &#8211; Pickthall, IAM Canada commend government on 10-day sick leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pickthall, IAM Canada commend government on 10-day sick leave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>26 May 2020<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For immediate release<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pickthall_screencap-1000x500-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8725\" src=\"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pickthall_screencap-1000x500-1-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pickthall_screencap-1000x500-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pickthall_screencap-1000x500-1-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pickthall_screencap-1000x500-1-960x480.png 960w, https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pickthall_screencap-1000x500-1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Toronto, ON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 IAM Canadian General Vice-President Stan Pickthall commended the federal government on seeking agreements with provincial and territorial governments to provide 10 days of paid sick leave to workers infected with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is potentially very good news for those who have put their bodies and their lives on their line to provides services and goods so the rest of us can weather this crisis,\u201d said Pickthall. \u201cIt IS a worthy recognition of their service to Canadians. The IAM will watch events closely in the coming days to ensure it is accomplished in a fair, meaningful and timely manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Credit MUST also go to the federal NDP and leader Jagmeet Singh for securing this important advancement in workers\u2019 rights. Singh and the NDP made supporting the Liberal government\u2019s parliamentary agenda until September contingent upon achieving sick leave for workers. This is the latest in a series of positive gains for Canadians that the NDP has battled for since the COVID crisis hit Canada earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The IAM maintains that workers shouldn\u2019t be forced to go to work and put themselves or others in danger because of financial stresses. We also feel that if they do go to work, they must have adequate time to recover if they fall ill. \u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 30 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<br \/>\nDerek Ferguson (<a href=\"mailto:dferguson@iamaw.org\">dferguson@iamaw.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Frank Saptel<br \/>\n(416) 579-0481\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fsaptel@iamaw.org\">fsaptel@iamaw.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickthall, IAM Canada commend government on 10-day sick leave 26 May 2020 For immediate release Toronto, ON\u00a0\u2013 IAM Canadian General Vice-President Stan Pickthall commended the federal government on seeking agreements with provincial and territorial governments to provide 10 days of paid sick leave to workers infected with COVID-19. \u201cThis is potentially very good news for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51],"tags":[63,67,61,54,62],"class_list":["post-8785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletins","category-news","tag-canada","tag-dl140","tag-iam","tag-iamaw","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785","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=8785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8786,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions\/8786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}