{"id":12489,"date":"2025-03-19T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2025-03-19T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:00:32","slug":"international-francophonie-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12489","title":{"rendered":"International Francophonie Day"},"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\/03\/Francophonie2022-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Francophonie2022-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Francophonie2022-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Francophonie2022-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Francophonie2022.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 20<sup>th<\/sup> of March 2025, for International Francophonie Day, the UNE\u2019s Francophone Committee invites UNE members to take a few moments to acknowledge their affiliation to the francophone community. The Committee wishes to remind you that French is a tool for inclusion, exchange and union cooperation. Working in French is a right, and it is a working condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protecting French in the workplace stems from members who are well versed on their right to work in their language of choice and from a collective awareness of the benefits of communicating in French, especially as it pertains to access to rights and health &amp; safety issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francophonie Day is also a time to celebrate the solidarity that brings together French-speaking workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00a0During this period of collective agreement bargaining, it is important that respect for both official languages be at <\/em>the <em>heart of negotiations to maintain our right to work in French.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNE\u2019s Francophone Committee would therefore like to wish you a good Francophonie Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 20th of March 2025, for International Francophonie Day, the UNE\u2019s Francophone Committee invites UNE members to take a few moments to acknowledge their affiliation to the francophone community. The Committee wishes to remind you that French is a tool for inclusion, exchange and union cooperation. Working in French is a right, and it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12489\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Francophonie Day&#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":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489"}],"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=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}