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Drone Safety Day

Transport Canada is inviting Canadians to celebrate the first National Drone Safety Awareness Day, a day set aside to raise awareness about drone safety. Canada wants to educate the public about safe drone practices and showcase the interesting and innovative ways...

December 3, 2021

Transport Canada played a role in the Ottawa Light Rail Transit (LRT) debacle

Health and safety

Transport Canada played a role in the Ottawa Light Rail Transit (LRT) debacle

Everyone, including Transport Canada, had abdicated their role to ensure that the Ottawa Light Rail Transit (OLRT) system was safe from the start. Maybe that shouldn’t be too surprising. After all, Transport Canada’s unwritten priorities seems to include not just...

November 10, 2021

COVID-19

Mandatory Vaccination Requirements for COVID-19 — Federally Regulated Transportation Sector and Its Travellers

Recently, UCTE responded in an article on our website to the COVID-19 Vaccination Policy for CPA as well as to important published information on Federal and Provincial Vaccination Policies and Human Rights in Canada. A new announcement has been posted...

October 29, 2021

Response from UCTE concerning Policy on COVID-19 Vaccination for CPA

COVID-19 PSAC

Response from UCTE concerning Policy on COVID-19 Vaccination for CPA

The federal government has made its policy clear: all employees of the core public administration must attest to being fully vaccinated to keep working. It is the employer’s responsibility to provide a safe working environment and to equip workers with...

October 13, 2021

World Oceans Day – Let’s talk about the Oceans Protection Plan

Health and safety

World Oceans Day – Let’s talk about the Oceans Protection Plan

It has been a few decades since a proposal was made at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to establish World Oceans Day. In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly decided to designate June 8 as World Oceans...

June 8, 2021

Underpaid salary + overpaid TA ≠ correct pay

Bargaining Updates

Underpaid salary + overpaid TA ≠ correct pay

Four years ago, after a long round of bargaining and an implementation period that was plagued by problems with Phoenix, some of UCTE’s members in the inspectorate at Transport Canada noticed discrepancies on their pay stubs. A fundamental change had...

May 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: What’s important for UCTE members

Bargaining Updates

Federal Budget 2021: What’s important for UCTE members

On April 19th, Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance presented the Liberal Government’s budget. Touted as a plan to “finish the fight against COVID-19 and ensure a robust economic recovery”, the budget has both highlights and low...

April 20, 2021

Transport Canada contracting out member’s work

Bargaining Updates

Transport Canada contracting out member’s work

Ten years ago Transport Canada (TC) privatized the CheckPilot program to outside contractors instead of keeping it in-house. Now, UCTE has learned that they are taking the next step in their contract creep and are contracting out the work of...

April 16, 2021

Transportation Safety Management Systems – Still not right

Health and safety

Transportation Safety Management Systems – Still not right

A little more than 10 years ago, UCTE presented its white paper SMS: What’s not right , which outlined the concerns our members had as safety management systems (SMS) were being implemented across every mode of transportation. A little more...

March 15, 2021

Meeting with Offices of the Minister Transport Canada and Labour Canada

Bargaining Updates

Meeting with Offices of the Minister Transport Canada and Labour Canada

UCTE met on February 1 with representatives of both the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Labour to discuss the challenges faced within the aviation sector as a whole and not just the airline industry. Four specific issues were...

February 1, 2021