{"id":2909,"date":"2026-05-09T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:15:23","slug":"professional-power-2026-a-powerful-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"PROFESSIONAL POWER 2026 \u2013 A POWERFUL CONVENTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Professional Power 2026 held last week in Palm Springs, California, brought together Healthcare professionals from The Pharmacy Guild\/IAM and IAM Healthcare.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>District 78 and Local 1231 leaders participated in this progressive symposium, dedicated to strengthening worker power, advancing workplace safety, and reinforcing the collective voice of healthcare members.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members connected, shared experiences, and built momentum around key issues impacting the Health-care sector. The focus was on unity, respect, and advocacy. Participants emerged, armed with knowledge and a better understanding of how to tackle the problems and issues in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIf the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own Solidarity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/professional-power-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/professional-power-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/professional-power-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/professional-power-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/professional-power-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/professional-power-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/professional-power-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Power 2026 held last week in Palm Springs, California, brought together Healthcare professionals from The Pharmacy Guild\/IAM and IAM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamopcm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}