{"id":818,"date":"2021-12-24T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamsters931.org\/?p=818"},"modified":"2021-12-24T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:10:25","slug":"local-union-931-organizes-150-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/2021\/12\/24\/local-union-931-organizes-150-new-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Union 931 Organizes 150 New Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Laval, December 23, 2021 &#8211; Teamsters Local Union 931 now represents\u00a0around\u00a0150 security guards licensed by the Bureau de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 priv\u00e9e, assigned to the Canada Border Services Agency at an Immigration Holding Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are employees of Garda, the&nbsp;company&nbsp;who&nbsp;conducts&nbsp;surveillance of immigrants who enter Canada illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank these officers for their confidence,&#8221; said Teamsters Canada President Fran\u00e7ois Laporte. &#8220;They made the right choice because we have the resources, skills and experience to offer them quality services.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;organizing drive, which lasted several weeks, is the result of close collaboration between Local Union 931 and Teamsters Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would like to highlight the quality work of our&nbsp;organizers,&#8221; adds Richard Lamoureux, President of Local Union 931. &#8220;Their professionalism and efficiency demonstrate why Teamsters are the most powerful union in North America.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workers will elect&nbsp;shop stewards&nbsp;in the coming weeks, and then the members&#8217; demands will be taken in order to begin the negotiation process for the renewal of their&nbsp;collective agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teamsters Local Union 931 now represents around 150 security guards licensed by the Bureau de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 priv\u00e9e, assigned to the Canada Border Services Agency at an Immigration Holding Centre <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[74,73],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-garda-2","tag-new-members"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsters931.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}