{"id":167,"date":"2020-11-03T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/?p=167"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:08:45","slug":"bc-voters-and-the-iam-show-confidence-in-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"BC Voters and the IAM Show Confidence in NDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\n<p><strong>BC Voters and the IAM Show Confidence in NDP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For immediate release<br>28 October, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Burnaby, BC<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cBritish Columbians deserve a stable government that has its eye on the welfare of British Columbians,\u201d said Walter Gerlach, Directing Business Representative of IAM District 250, representing workers across the province. \u201cWe congratulate Premier Horgan on his historic victory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven though&nbsp;it could take some time before the nearly half million mail-in ballots are counted, we look forward to a majority NDP government for the first time since 1996,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Machinists in BC have a long and strong relationship with the BCNDP and many of our members helped on the election campaign. Political action is a strong force within the IAM, and members saw the importance of a government geared to workers and the common good. The NDP platform connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premier-elect John Horgan and the NDP are projected to win in 55&nbsp;of B.C.&#8217;s 87 ridings, compared to 29&nbsp;for the Liberals and three&nbsp;for the Green Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the NDP goes off-course, we will hold them to account, but for now, we look forward to the next four years of stability and good government,\u201d said Gerlach. \u201cBritish Columbians deserve it, and our communities deserve it,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information<br><strong>Walter Gerlach<br><\/strong>wgerlach@iam250.org<br>Directing Business Representative<br>IAM District 250<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Voters and the IAM Show Confidence in NDP For immediate release28 October, 2020 Burnaby, BC &#8211; \u201cBritish Columbians deserve a stable government that has its eye on the welfare of British Columbians,\u201d said Walter Gerlach, Directing Business Representative of IAM District 250, representing workers across the province. \u201cWe congratulate Premier Horgan on his historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","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\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamdistrict250.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}