{"id":922,"date":"2014-05-23T21:57:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T02:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/?p=922"},"modified":"2023-03-12T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T01:57:07","slug":"a-message-from-dave-ritchie-get-out-and-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Dave Ritchie: Get Out and Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To:\u00a0 IAM members in Ontario<br \/>\nThe June 12 provincial election could be a crucial turning-point for Ontario.\u00a0 Over the last couple of decades, under the Harris Conservative and McGuinty Liberal governments, Ontario\u2019s working families have taken a lot of hits. Between the mass destruction of good manufacturing jobs after NAFTA and the financial meltdown of 2008, most Ontario families are more vulnerable than at any time since World War II.<br \/>\nAnd things could get a lot worse.\u00a0\u00a0 If we end up with Conservative Tim Hudak in the Premier\u2019s chair on June 13, we can expect a full scale assault on workers\u2019 rights and fairness in this province.\u00a0 Hudak\u2019s only jobs plan is throwing more billions of dollars at corporate CEOs, who are already sitting on huge piles of cash.<br \/>\nTo turn things around, we need a government that respects and protects workers, whose goals are good jobs and fairness.\u00a0 Not only do we need to stop Hudak, but we need more New Democrats in the Ontario legislature, to ensure that the interests of Ontario\u2019s working families are protected.<br \/>\nOn June 12, I urge you and your family to vote for the candidate in your riding who will support workers and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 IAM members in Ontario The June 12 provincial election could be a crucial turning-point for Ontario.\u00a0 Over the last couple of decades, under the Harris Conservative and McGuinty Liberal governments, Ontario\u2019s working families have taken a lot of hits. Between the mass destruction of good manufacturing jobs after NAFTA and the financial meltdown of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw905.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}