Collective Bargaining – Union of Canadian Transportation Employees

Bargaining Update for Members Working at Victoria Airport

Bargaining Update for Members Working at Victoria Airport

Your negotiating team met with the employer on December 16 and 17. Despite our best efforts to reach a tentative agreement, we have reached an impasse. Rates of pay are the main outstanding issue. We will be requesting the appointment...

December 19, 2025

2025: A Year of Growing Resistance to Code Section 107 and its Abuses

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2025: A Year of Growing Resistance to Code Section 107 and its Abuses

The use of “Section 107” of the Canada Labour Code (the Code) has been raised, and challenged, in several recent labour disputes. It’s been in the Code for decades, so why has it become a battleground this year? The Basics...

December 17, 2025

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Impasse at NAV CANADA

Today, November 30, is day 700 without a contract for more than two hundred employees at NAV CANADA in nine UCTE locals all across the country. Members will not stand by and wait. They are standing strong behind the UCTE-PSAC...

November 30, 2025

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Labour Day Check-in

Monday, September 1 is Labour Day. Each year we celebrate, commemorate, and march while looking to the fight ahead. Looking Back: Recent ups and downs So far, the Carney Government seems to be at least as willing as the Trudeau...

August 29, 2025

Firefighters and Cancer – the story continues

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Firefighters and Cancer – the story continues

Cancer is still the leading cause of death for firefighters. Firefighters’ unions and some lawmakers have made progress in recent years, but there is much more that can be done to get better and more equitable access to prevention and...

August 26, 2025

Rights, just not the Same Rights as Other Workers

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Rights, just not the Same Rights as Other Workers

Not every worker in Canada is a member of a union that allows them to be part of collective bargaining with their employer. Some workers in Canada are not even entitled even to minimum wages and other basic protections. But...

August 21, 2025

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Letter to the Honourable Patty Hajdu

Hon. Patty HajduMinister of Jobs and Families Dear Ms. Hajdu I am writing to you on behalf of the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees to express our deep disappointment with your decision to impose binding arbitration between Air Canada and...

August 18, 2025

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Statement on Air Canada Strike

The Union of Canadian Transportation Employees is deeply disappointed with the federal government’s imposition of binding arbitration between Air Canada and CUPE flight attendants. Barely hours into a legal strike, this action deserves the condemnation of all fair-minded Canadians. We...

August 18, 2025

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Solidarity With CUPE Flight Attendants

Over 10,000 cabin crew workers represented by CUPE and employed by Air Canada are now on strike / locked out of work). UCTE stands in solidarity. Unpaid Hours Notably, and probably unknown to most of the travelling public until recently,...

August 16, 2025

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NAV CANADA Bargaining update

The UCTE-PSAC NAV CANADA bargaining team had more meetings this month and has six more dates in the calendar this fall. The negotiators made some progress on issues including On the Job Instruction pay, travel time, and employment security. As...

June 27, 2025