{"id":5201,"date":"2015-10-20T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2015-12-03T10:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:35:26","slug":"harper-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"Harper Stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HarperStoppedv02.png\" alt=\"HarperStoppedv02\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HarperStoppedv02.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HarperStoppedv02-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After ten years of cuts to government services, lies about security and climate change, disrespect to indigenous people and deception to Canadians on so many other levels, voters stormed the polls and finally put a stop to Stephen Harper and his conservative regime. Canada has voted to stop the cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been obvious to our members and it became obvious to Canadians during this election that parliament was broken, ruled by a secretive and dishonest government,\u201d said UNE national president Doug Marshall. \u201cWe hope to work with the incoming government to establish positive labour relations and hold the Liberals to the promises they outlined in their party\u2019s platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of those promises we will watch closely include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restoring a public service where employees are respected and valued<\/li>\n<li>Increasing taxes for our country\u2019s highest earners<\/li>\n<li>Increasing the funding for needed infrastructure projects<\/li>\n<li>Establishing an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women<\/li>\n<li>Repealing various anti-worker and anti-union laws<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Union of National Employees is prepared to work with the new government in order to achieve positive change for Canadians and a strong and effective public service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After ten years of cuts to government services, lies about security and climate change, disrespect to indigenous people and deception to Canadians on so many other levels, voters stormed the polls and finally put a stop to Stephen Harper and his conservative regime. Canada has voted to stop the cuts. \u201cIt has been obvious to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=5201\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harper Stopped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,7,171,12,169],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"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=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}