{"id":12323,"date":"2025-01-28T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12323"},"modified":"2025-01-28T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:30:03","slug":"caf-class-action-settlement-its-a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12323","title":{"rendered":"CAF Class Action Settlement: It&#8217;s a Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FAC-Start-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FAC-Start-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FAC-Start-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FAC-Start-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/FAC-Start.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, the Federal Court of Canada approved a Final Settlement Agreement of a class action for Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members who experienced racial discrimination during their military service. While this is a victory for those workers, the government of Canada still has a lot of work ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a step in the right direction, but the fight on the hands of those who have suffered racism in the federal government goes on,&#8221; said UNE National President Alisha Kang. &#8220;There are 45,000 more past and present federal government workers waiting for this government to recognize the discrimination that has gone on for the last 50 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link &#8211; Statement by the Minister of National Defence on the Settlement of the Canadian Armed Forces Systemic Racism Class Action<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-national-defence\/news\/2025\/01\/statement-by-the-minister-of-national-defence-on-the-settlement-of-the-canadian-armed-forces-systemic-racism-class-action.html\">https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-national-defence\/news\/2025\/01\/statement-by-the-minister-of-national-defence-on-the-settlement-of-the-canadian-armed-forces-systemic-racism-class-action.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/ministere-defense-nationale\/nouvelles\/2025\/01\/declaration-du-ministre-de-la-defense-nationale-concernant-lentente-de-reglement-du-recours-collectif-sur-le-racisme-systemique-dans-les-forces-arm.html\">https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/ministere-defense-nationale\/nouvelles\/2025\/01\/declaration-du-ministre-de-la-defense-nationale-concernant-lentente-de-reglement-du-recours-collectif-sur-le-racisme-systemique-dans-les-forces-arm.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Federal Court of Canada approved a Final Settlement Agreement of a class action for Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members who experienced racial discrimination during their military service. While this is a victory for those workers, the government of Canada still has a lot of work ahead. &#8220;This is a step in the right &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12323\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CAF Class Action Settlement: It&#8217;s a Start&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12330,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions\/12330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}