Issue – Page 26 – Union of Canadian Transportation Employees

World Mental Health Day

Statistics show that 1 in 5 Canadians will experience mental health challenges in any given year. The focus is on finding help and solutions. Revealing the illness can be easier than finding just the right person to talk to about...

October 10, 2019

TSB recommendations continue to fall on Transport Canada deaf ears

Health and safety

TSB recommendations continue to fall on Transport Canada deaf ears

Ten years ago, off the coast of Newfoundland, a small fishing vessel sank. According to the Transportation Safety Board (TSB), a contributing factor was the lack of alarms to alert the crew that the vessel was taking on water below...

October 9, 2019

This is what it’s like to live with a tendering system

Health and safety

This is what it’s like to live with a tendering system

From my own experience, I was working on contract for the past 5 years and I must admit I wasn’t sure of anything. Nothing can be built or planned in the long term when you have no security. I even...

October 8, 2019

Two lives saved by our members in the Quebec Region

Health and safety

Two lives saved by our members in the Quebec Region

Monday, September 30, 2019, two people were on a cruise ship to the port of Quebec. They jumped out. The reasons for why are still an assumption that they wanted to stay in Canada. They had jumped out of the...

October 1, 2019

Health and safety Job Action

CLIMATE STRIKE in Ottawa, Canada with UCTE

We walked. We shouted. Today we walked for mother nature; our planet. We were proud to see how many people were there to strike. Just to let you know, they stopped the traffic for more than an hour in the...

September 27, 2019

Health and safety

Building the relationship with Nav Canada

This week, UCTE local presidents from every Nav Canada local as well as the UCTE National Executive and Nav Canada management met with the federal mediation services. After a strained round of bargaining and with changes in leadership at both...

September 27, 2019

Campaigns Human rights Labour history

For the Seas, for Them: #SeaHER

To start, it is very important to make special mention of all seafarers working at sea or on the coast on this World Maritime Day. We want to thank you for the safety that you bring to our seas and oceans....

September 26, 2019

Bargaining Updates Human rights

They need to STOP, or we are going ON STRIKE

Many UCTE members are in situations that need employers to stop. Members at Parks Canada, Saint John Airport, Treasury Board and Great Lakes Pilotage are in tenuous positions with their employers who are refusing to engage fairly with our members. Recently, we have designed...

September 25, 2019

New video highlights risks of privatization

Bargaining Updates Campaigns Health and safety Human rights

New video highlights risks of privatization

Working together, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and its component union, the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees (UCTE), have produced a video to highlight the intolerable negative outcomes of the full-scale privatization of critical public infrastructure. Home to...

June 10, 2019

Human rights Labour history

The 1980 CR Strike

Today, April 24, is Administrative Professionals Day. As a union that represents a great number of administrative professionals, we obviously want to take this opportunity to recognize the invaluable work they accomplish every day. Indeed, administrative professionals have shaped our...

April 18, 2019