CAWU’S LIES AND DECEIPT

Just over four years ago CAWU told you a vote for the CAWU meant a merger with CAW. There was No merger and No explanation.

CAWU promised you an election after one year. Three years later a judge falls just short of calling them liars when he had to rule twice in favor of YOU having an election.

YOU elected Farooq Hamid as your president. CAWU unjustly and illegally removed him as president, ignoring your wishes. You also asked for an audit and CAWU blocked one from happening.

A Midnight Terminal 3 screening officer had to take the CAWU to the Labour Board in order to obtain the financial records for 2009. The Labour Board ruled in favor of this screener. May, 2011 this screener again requested the financial records from CAWU for 2010. He had to take CAWU to the Labour Board again to obtain them and 10 months later CAWU was ordered by the Board to release the financial records to this person.

CAWU said IAM didn’t have enough cards to file with the Board and that they allegedly got hundreds of people to withdraw their cards. On January 03, 2012 IAM filed at the CIRB with a large majority of the CAWU membership signing cards in support of joining the IAM.

CAWU told you there will be no election The CIRB has ruled that the election will take place.

7. CAWU said IAM is in bed with the company. Why then are so many screeners in full support of IAM still pursuing legal actions against the company to get their jobs back? Why did CIRB Chairperson Elizabeth MacPherson in her ruling on February 23, 2012 state, “The CAWU’s submissions in this proceeding provide no additional evidence to substantiate new allegations that the employer has contributed financial or other support you the IAM, in contravention of section 94 (1) (b) of the Code. Accordingly the board finds no basis on which to dismiss the application on this ground.”

8. CAWU told you they were doing everything possible to bring back all the screeners that were suspended and/or terminated back in October.

Again in Elizabeth MacPherson’s ruling dated February 23, 2012 it is stated “the CAWU has not, to date, pursued the remaining complaints contained in Board file nos. 2917-C and 29035-C which relate to alleged contravention of section 94(3) (a) and (e) of the code involving individuals suspended or terminated for participating in an illegal strike in October 2011.” (In other words CAWU could not back up their lies with evidence. They didn’t do anything to bring people back to work and they are not doing anything to bring the people who have been terminated back.) Chairperson MacPherson also went on to state, “On the basis of the evidence before it, the Board is unable to conclude that the IAM is in any way dominated or influenced by Garda, let alone to such an extent that its fitness to represent the employees in this bargaining unit would be impaired. Accordingly, the board dismisses this allegation.”

9. The CAWU is claiming that if IAM becomes your union, you will have split shifts, shift bids, unpaid breaks, no benefits or union representation for months, unpaid parking. How do they know? The law states that you cannot get less than what you have now! Your benefits are with the company and they will not change unless you agree to change them! You will decide what your collective agreement is going to look like!

10. CAWU has been recently showing you a collective agreement and told you that it is British Columbia’s Agreement. The fact is, it is a collective agreement for ‘C’ class airports in Kelowna, BC, Cranbrook etc… with about 70 Screening Officers. Ask them to show you the ‘A’ class airport collective agreement (IAM) from Vancouver. It is a lot better than what you currently have and better than anything that the CAWU could ever get for you! You can read it for yourself online at: www.screeners.iamaw.ca

11. CAWU is claiming that they got a Terminal 3 Point Leader’s job back and brought him back to work. The truth is he was unjustly terminated in January, 2010. CAWU closed his file in February 2010; in April 2010 this Point Leader filed a section 37 complaint with the CIRB for unfair representation by the CAWU. In January 2011 he represented himself at the Board and in spite of CAWU’s attempts to stop him from returning to work, this Point Leader brought himself back to work because he won his case against the CAWU and the company.

12. CAWU secretly signed Letter of Understanding No. 7 behind your back without your consent. Sumeet Datta signed this agreement and then CAWU tried to tell you it was a forgery yet they had it posted on their website. The only way this type of letter would be agreed to is if there was something in it for them. So who is really in bed with whom?

READ, ASK QUESTIONS, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY ASK FOR PROOF!

Vote IAM a union who will stand up for all of you as a real union should!

In Solidarity,

Ian Morland

Organizer, IAM National District 140

Phone: 416-875-8140