{"id":1400,"date":"2026-08-26T13:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:02:09","slug":"a-message-from-the-canadian-labour-congress-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the Canadian Labour Congress President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump has ramped up his trade attacks, placing massive tariffs on Canadians goods and putting workers and communities under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gloves are off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Now is the time to use all of our leverage, and that includes fighting back with our wallets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can choose to buy Canadian at the grocery store. We can support small Canadian businesses. And we can make sure that every dollar we spend supports good, unionized jobs here at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CLC\u2019s <em>Buy Union<\/em> guide gives us a real way to support good jobs in our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianlabour.ca\/buy-union\/?link_id=3&amp;can_id=23d6668ab0d0ebce3fb44be2e50b77b6&amp;source=email-buy-union&amp;email_referrer=email_3374072___subject_3842746&amp;email_subject=buy-union&amp;&amp;\">BUY UNION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers shouldn\u2019t pay the price for Trump\u2019s trade war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When you buy union-made, you\u2019re supporting workers, strengthening local economies and keeping good jobs right here in Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/ss\/c\/u001.EtNV8HBC60Tl7UuGmXS3scydBtUtDVdPDTHD0zYS4Lobob-LmJa8XaBiRglCLJpJL5FhQjZbLZKvN1b2zJd4ZB8lutpUlCrKZYkYOqafTM1zUe-kkktnfnADWceni5kBe3B11feB32jHku6r-6wplddoAO-2TTHgLAgpFS2fvs8h6W5lH3-HrfTu5y_32MXZjyssI7BmrV4GuUnXh5W1vNtACCEgF5ihXv4Qr3p3V8uWv_levLVsFssMTYzw6HD9\/4ti\/SQgjb0UXS7Whqui7aVCRow\/h2\/h001.oiMMT7dZarNhP3F3r1EefHOmM5qM8-9s41SQmjbSzTc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the <em>Buy Union<\/em> guide today.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re all in this together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In solidarity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Bea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bea Bruske (she\/her)<br>President<br>Canadian Labour Congress<br><em>Workers Together: For our jobs and our rights<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has ramped up his trade attacks, placing massive tariffs on Canadians goods and putting workers and communities under pressure. The gloves are off. Now is the time to use all of our leverage, and that includes fighting back with our wallets. We can choose to buy Canadian at the grocery store. We can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-we-are"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}