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Swissport fuellers at YVR Airport ratified a new collective agreement!

After a strong show of solidarity from the membership, including giving their bargaining team an overwhelming strike mandate, a new collective agreement has been ratified by fuellers and workers at the tank farm at Vancouver airport. The new contract expires...

March 7, 2022

Bargaining Updates

Nav Canada – Nav Centre has new owners

Nav Canada members located at the Nav Centre in Cornwall were advised today that the employer has sold the facility to Devcore Inc. The centre has been for sale for several years and the sale will be final on June...

March 7, 2022

PSAC

2022 National Triennial Convention

The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s 2022 National Triennial Convention will now be held virtually, and the revised dates will be announced shortly PSAC’s National Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to hold the 2022 PSAC National Triennial Convention...

March 3, 2022

NAV CANADA: Team tables demands as bargaining begins

Bargaining Updates PSAC

NAV CANADA: Team tables demands as bargaining begins

The NAV CANADA bargaining team exchanged proposals at their first meeting with the employer February 22-24. Our bargaining team received a strong mandate from members to address key priorities at the table, including fair wages, remote work and better work-life...

March 2, 2022

Update – Treasury Board Bargaining: PA group

PSAC

Update – Treasury Board Bargaining: PA group

On February 17 and 18, the negotiation team submitted their monetary package when they returned to the bargaining table with Treasury Board. PSAC put forward its wage proposal of 4.5 per cent per year for all Treasury Board members at...

March 2, 2022

Equity PSAC

Zero Discrimination Day — Pay Equity

Since 2014, March 1st has been recognized by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly as Zero Discrimination Day. The aim of this day is to create a worldwide movement of solidarity to put an end to all forms of discrimination....

March 1, 2022

Equity

Black History Month – The Story of Marie-Josèphe Angélique

To conclude Black History Month, UCTE would like to take the time to go back to the very beginning of the rebellions of the 1700s. Canada was one of the countries that used slavery. In the 1600s, there were 4,200...

February 28, 2022

Tentative agreement reached for our members at Moncton airport

Bargaining Updates

Tentative agreement reached for our members at Moncton airport

The negotiating team representing members at Moncton airport reached a tentative agreement with the employer on February 17, 2022. The ratification meetings will take place on March 3rd and 4th with your negotiating team who will present full details of the...

February 24, 2022

Equity Health and safety

Pink Shirt Day — Anti-Bullying Day

Inspired by an act of solidarity by Nova Scotia teens to support a young student who was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school, Pink Shirt Day has become an opportunity to raise awareness about bullying and its consequences....

February 23, 2022

National Aviation Day: 1978 – The Cranbrook, B.C. Plane Crash: What Really Happened?

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National Aviation Day: 1978 – The Cranbrook, B.C. Plane Crash: What Really Happened?

In 1978, on February 11, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashed at Cranbrook International Airport in British Columbia. The tragedy claimed the lives of 42 of the 49 people aboard. In 1978 the Cranbrook Airport was considered...

February 23, 2022