{"id":1007,"date":"2023-10-24T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/?page_id=1007"},"modified":"2023-10-24T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T19:38:53","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/?page_id=1007","title":{"rendered":"LL456 History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/about.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"196\" src=\"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/about.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>When 19 machinists met in a railway locomotive inspection pit in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., in May 1888, they had little idea their new organization would grow into a vibrant union of more than 730,000 members. To-day the International Association of Machinists &amp; Aerospace Workers (IAM) represents a wide range of workers in 200 basic industries in&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Canada<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>U.S.A.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Our members work on everything from the shops servicing Space Shuttles to the small machine shop at the corner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Local 456 was granted its charter on May 18, 1901. Like the parent union, our members were part of a railroad, the Esquimalt\/Nanaimo Railway.&nbsp; Over the years we have expanded into the shipyards, pulp and paper mills small machine shops and manufacturers for the marine industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We continue the tradition of serving all members of every calling<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When 19 machinists met in a railway locomotive inspection pit in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., in May 1888, they had little idea their new organization would grow into a vibrant union of more than 730,000 members. To-day the International Association of Machinists &amp; Aerospace Workers (IAM) represents a wide range of workers in 200 basic industries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw456.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}