Latest UCTE News

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

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New website!

UCTE is proud to announce the launch of our new website. “Our focus group told us that our site was not as user friendly as it could be. As a result, we invested in developing a tool that meets their...

October 4, 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

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A meeting for the national executive

Today, September 30, 2019, members of the National Executive meet to update their agenda. They will be in discussion until Thursday, October 3, 2019. Dave Clark, Teresa Eschuk, Barry Tchir, Martin Mika, Mike Tennant, François Paradis, Chris Bussey and Micheal...

September 30, 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

How to make a good decision during the elections?

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How to make a good decision during the elections?

Well, to begin with, I think most of you are aware of the scandals that are following Justin Trudeau and his “blackface”. In fact, the Conservative leader Andrew Scheer himself said that his team sent the controversial video to Global....

September 24, 2019

Convention 2020

2020 UCTE Convention Call

It’s official! UCTE’s 18th Triennial Convention will be held in Edmonton, Alberta at the Chateau Lacombe Hotel from July 19 to 22, 2020. Individual convention call packages which included your local’s delegate entitlement information were mailed on Friday September 20th. Please...

September 23, 2019