Airports – Page 10 – Union of Canadian Transportation Employees

SUMMARY OF THE DECISION – PSAC VS YQB

PUBLIC SERVICE ALLIANCE OF CANADA (PSAC) VS AÉROPORTS DE QUÉBEC INC (YQB) Context This grievance concerns a temporary firefighter at the Québec City Airport (YQB), dismissed on November 18, 2016 following his refusal to sign a commitment to accept a...

October 17, 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

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

Honour, remember and support for fallen fighters and their families

Uncategorized

Honour, remember and support for fallen fighters and their families

Once again, this year, UCTE participated in the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation (CFFF) Memorial Services. According to their website, the CFFF “was created to HONOUR and REMEMBER firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty and to SUPPORT...

September 9, 2019

Bargaining Updates Uncategorized

One demand for peace of mind

Members at Saint John Airport have taken the fight for good quality pensions to heart. Negotiations have not gone smoothly and the employer filed for conciliation in May. The bargaining team re-evaluated their package of demands and withdrew all proposals...

August 30, 2019

Congrats to Thunder Bay International Airport Authority’s employees

Bargaining Updates

Congrats to Thunder Bay International Airport Authority’s employees

Congratulations to the bargaining team who reached a tentative agreement with the employer today. Special thank you to Ryan Brady, Rob Kennedy, Martin Mika and Jawara Gairey for all of your hard work. The ratification kit will be ready shortly...

August 9, 2019

Another Victory for UCTE Members and the travelling public in Canada

Bargaining Updates

Another Victory for UCTE Members and the travelling public in Canada

We are very pleased to report that as a result of intensive lobbying by UCTE members who work at airports and those who work as inspectors in civil aviation, the Government of Canada has recognized that the Canadian Aviation Regulations...

August 1, 2019

Bargaining Updates

Deal reached at Regina Airport

On July 22, 2019 members of local 40403, Regina International Airport voted in favour of a new collective agreement. The new five-year agreement, which is retroactive to July 1, 2018, reflects improvements for work-life balance as well as increases in...

July 23, 2019

Members working at Swissport Canada have a new collective agreement

Bargaining Updates

Members working at Swissport Canada have a new collective agreement

PSAC is happy to announce that a new collective agreement has been ratified by members of the Swissport Canada fuel services bargaining unit at Vancouver International Airport. The agreement, which was achieved with the assistance of a federal conciliation officer,...

July 3, 2019

Stormy skies still on the horizon at YVR – union and employer to meet in June

Bargaining Updates

Stormy skies still on the horizon at YVR – union and employer to meet in June

After the Swissport Fuel Services management walked away from the table and filed for conciliation, airplane fuelers at Vancouver Airport are meeting with a federal conciliation officer and the employer June 21-23 in another effort to achieve a new contract. “Our...

June 3, 2019