{"id":42938,"date":"2016-07-11T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/uncategorized\/la-force-ouvriere-a-tribute-to-michel-chartrand"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:23:21","slug":"la-force-ouvriere-a-tribute-to-michel-chartrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/projects\/la-force-ouvriere-a-tribute-to-michel-chartrand","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;La force ouvri\u00e8re&#8221; a tribute to Michel Chartrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><strong>&ldquo;La&#8239;force&#8239;ouvri&egrave;re&rdquo;&nbsp;a tribute to&nbsp;Michel&nbsp;Chartrand&nbsp;by&nbsp;Armand&nbsp;Vaillancourt&#8203;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A news conference was held on June&nbsp;7,&nbsp;2013&nbsp;to&nbsp;present&nbsp;&ldquo;La&#8239;force&#8239;ouvri&egrave;re, un&nbsp;hommage&nbsp;collectif&nbsp;&agrave; Michel&nbsp;Chartrand,&rdquo;&nbsp;a&nbsp;work by the acclaimed&nbsp;sculptor Armand&nbsp;Vaillancourt.&nbsp;Some of the project&rsquo;s contributors were in attendance, including our&nbsp;president, Serge&nbsp;Gendron&nbsp;(centre&nbsp;of&nbsp;photo),&nbsp;who donated the rebar for the project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image_9_-7.png\" style=\"height:287px; width:350px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Work on this monumental sculpture began on August 10 last year in the&nbsp;Michel-Chartrand&nbsp;regional park in&nbsp;Longueuil.&nbsp;It was erected on a concrete base with a volume of&nbsp;600 m3&#8239;and&nbsp;60&nbsp;tonnes&nbsp;of rebar. And rebar is synonymous with&nbsp;AGF&nbsp;Group!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image_10_-7.png\" style=\"height:236px; width:350px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Some of you were involved in this project.&nbsp;St&eacute;phanie&nbsp;Lagac&eacute;&nbsp;(technician-project&nbsp;manager at&nbsp;Acier&nbsp;AGF)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Pierre-Luc&nbsp;Daneault&nbsp;(technician-project&nbsp;manager at&nbsp;Acier&nbsp;ATR)&nbsp;worked together to detail the rebar that was&nbsp;then&nbsp;fabricated at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Longueuil&nbsp;plant&nbsp;and installed on site by our steel workers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image_11_-7.png\" style=\"height:233px; width:350px\" title=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-7.jpg\" style=\"height:233px; width:350px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all those who worked closely or indirectly on this project, which&nbsp;honours&nbsp;the memory of the great humanist and union organizer&nbsp;Michel&nbsp;Chartrand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the final result, which you can&nbsp;check&nbsp;out&nbsp;the next time you visit&nbsp;Longueuil.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/la_force_ouvri_re_2016-7.jpg\" style=\"height:298px; width:950px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ligne_bleue_separation_version_e-1913.jpg\" style=\"height:67px; width:400px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>&ldquo;La fuerza obrera&rdquo; Homenaje a Michel Chartrand por Armand Vaillancourt<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>El 7 de julio de 2013 se realiz&oacute; una conferencia de prensa con el fin de promover la campa&ntilde;a &ldquo;La fuerza obrera, homenaje colectivo a Michel Chartrand&rdquo;, obra concebida por el c&eacute;lebre escultor Armand Vaillancourt. Algunos colaboradores estuvieron presentes, entre ellos, nuestro presidente, Serge Gendron (al centro de la foto) quien proporcion&oacute; gratuitamente el acero de refuerzo para el proyecto.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image_9_-8.png\" style=\"height:287px; width:350px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Es as&iacute; que el 10 de agosto de 2015 comenzaron los trabajos de esta obra monumental, la cual fue instalada en el parque regional Michel-Chartrand en Longueuil. La escultura fue erigida sobre una base de concreto de un volumen de 600&nbsp;m<sup>3<\/sup> y 60 toneladas de acero de refuerzo. &iexcl;Y quien dice refuerzo dice Grupo&nbsp;AGF!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image_10_-8.png\" style=\"height:236px; width:350px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Efectivamente, algunos de nosotros trabajaron en el proyecto. St&eacute;phanie Lagac&eacute; (t&eacute;cnica-encargada de proyecto en Acier&nbsp;AGF) y Pierre-Luc Daneault (t&eacute;cnico-encargado de proyecto en Acier&nbsp;AGF) trabajaron juntos para detallar el acero de refuerzo que fue transformado en las f&aacute;bricas de Longueuil antes de que nuestros chatarreros lo colocaran en la obra.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image_11_-8.png\" style=\"height:233px; width:350px\" title=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-8.jpg\" style=\"height:233px; width:350px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Felicidades a todos los que trabajaron de cerca o de lejos en el proyecto y que contribuyeron a la memoria del gran humanista y sindicalista Michel Chartrand.<\/p>\n<p>Este es el resultado final de la obra, &iexcl;el cual podr&aacute;n admirar en su pr&oacute;xima visita a Longueuil!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/la_force_ouvri_re_2016-8.jpg\" style=\"height:298px; width:950px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;La&#8239;force&#8239;ouvri&egrave;re&rdquo;&nbsp;a tribute to&nbsp;Michel&nbsp;Chartrand&nbsp;by&nbsp;Armand&nbsp;Vaillancourt&#8203; A news conference was held on June&nbsp;7,&nbsp;2013&nbsp;to&nbsp;present&nbsp;&ldquo;La&#8239;force&#8239;ouvri&egrave;re, un&nbsp;hommage&nbsp;collectif&nbsp;&agrave; Michel&nbsp;Chartrand,&rdquo;&nbsp;a&nbsp;work by the acclaimed&nbsp;sculptor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56022,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions\/56022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}