Toronto Screeners

Letter of Support- Unifor

Dear Brother Chartrand and GardaWorld YYZ members of the IAM, RE: Support for IAMAW As Canada’s largest private sector union, representing 315,000 members across the country, we extend our solidarity to the IAM in this challenging time. Unifor condemns the anti-worker raiding tactics employed by the CAWU. These tactics ultimately benefit the employer, leaving workers further behind. We urge IAM members to carefully consider the implications of the decision you will make in the upcoming vote. Pre-board screening officers deserve

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Update- Employer Time Clock

Dear Sisters and Brothers, The CATSA notice that was posted a few days ago (punch out for break) is in violation of the Canada Labour Code and we have notified Garda that if is actually implemented, they will be in violation of the Canada Labour Code. We have previously served Garda with a “Notice to Bargain” that provides for a statutory freeze period that stops any material changes to your working rules and conditions until a new agreement is negotiated.

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Letters of Support- USW

Dear Airport Screeners, I am writing in my capacity as United Steelworkers union District 6 Director, which includes Ontario and the Atlantic provinces. The USW represents 225,000 working people across Canada and is the largest private sector union in North America, with 850,000 members in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. At the USW, we also represent thousands of airport screeners who do the same difficult job as you do. We know these struggles intimately – from challenging schedules,

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Letter of Support – Ontario Nurses’ Association Letter of Support –

To: IAM Member Airport Screener Officers Hello to each of you from the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), Canada’s largest nurses’ union. I am writing to you to encourage you to remain a member of your current union – IAM – and your union’s affiliation with the Ontario Federation of Labour and Canadian Labour Congress.  ONA’s 68,000 registered nurses and health-care professionals as well as 18,000 nursing student affiliates have experienced firsthand the incredible, tangible benefits that come with union membership

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Letter of Support- Society of Union Professionals

To: Airport Screening Officers represented by IAM Dear Airport Screening Officers, I am writing to you today on behalf of the Society of United Professionals, a union of nearly 10,000 professional workers in Ontario, to encourage you to remain affiliated with the International Association of Machinists. (IAM) Our power as workers resides in our ability to come together, united as a movement. It is our numbers that give us the strength to push back against our employers’ demands when we

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AIRPORT SCREENERS, MEMBERS OF IAM- OFL Letter of Support

RE: The Benefits of Remaining with the IAM, and Ontario’s Labour Movement On behalf of the working people of Ontario, and in my capacity as President of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), which represents 54 unions, including the IAM, I want to take a few minutes to talk to you about what’s at stake with your union membership. As members of the IAM, an affiliate of the OFL and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the first thing you need

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Airport Screeners Letter of Support- CUPE

A Letter of Support from CUPE Ontario Dear IAM comrades:On behalf of the 290,000 members represented by CUPE Ontario, we are writing to urge youand your fellow Airport Screening Officers to retain your membership of the InternationalAssociation of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). It is vital that your voice continues tobe heard in IAM and, via its affiliation to the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and CanadianLabour Congress (CLC), in the two key bodies that make up our House of

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