{"id":834,"date":"2024-04-14T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/?p=834"},"modified":"2024-06-27T23:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:44:53","slug":"political-action-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Political action Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/political-symposium-2024-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-837 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/political-symposium-2024-2.jpg 385w, https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/political-symposium-2024-2-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><em>Recently eighty Canadians including our own Grant Pachkowsky and Henry Dube of local 608 Pinawa, took part in a three day political action symposium at the Winpisinger educational &amp; technology center in Hollywood, Maryland. They were there to develop their communication skills and ways to improve\u00a0how to advocate their regional labour issues in the political spectrum. In a practice session members broke up into teams designing their own campaigns to bring their voices to bare advocating for their issues.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"986\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is political-symposium-2024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image.jpeg 986w, https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-300x140.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-768x358.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above at middle table, from left-right, Henry D, Grant P, as well as our Rep. Glen Tomchuk at far right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Chartrand_Group_Panoramic_IMG_1102-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Chartrand_Group_Panoramic_IMG_1102-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Chartrand_Group_Panoramic_IMG_1102-1-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Chartrand_Group_Panoramic_IMG_1102-1-768x259.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>The importance of engaging with political leaders and officials on all level of government was stressed by IAM\u00a0 general Vice President David Chartrand.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently eighty Canadians including our own Grant Pachkowsky and Henry Dube of local 608 Pinawa, took part in a three day political action symposium at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw608.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}