{"id":25772,"date":"2014-09-14T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=25772"},"modified":"2014-09-14T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T23:10:36","slug":"mulcair-promises-to-raise-the-wage-bar-for-federally-regulated-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/14\/mulcair-promises-to-raise-the-wage-bar-for-federally-regulated-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulcair promises to raise the wage bar for federally regulated workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25819\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25819\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Mulcair (Screengrab from Canucks Politics)\" width=\"650\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair.jpg 650w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/tom-mulcair-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Mulcair (Screengrab from Canucks Politics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; The New Democrats are promising to bring back the minimum wage for federal employees if they form the next government.<\/p>\n<p>NDP leader Tom Mulcair announced in Vancouver today that he would make the minimum wage for workers in federally regulated sectors $15 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Mulcair says the Liberals and Conservatives did nothing to raise the bar while in power.<\/p>\n<p>He says although the affected workers only amount to a small per cent of Canada&#8217;s overall workforce, raising their wage will pressure the provinces to do more.<\/p>\n<p>Mulcair is also going to address Unifor, Canada&#8217;s largest private sector union, which is meeting in Vancouver this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Vancouver announcement is the first in what is expected to be a number of NDP announcements as it rolls out detailed planks of its platform this fall.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also expected the New Democrats will unveil plans for a national child-care program and infrastructure investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; The New Democrats are promising to bring back the minimum wage for federal employees if they form the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}