{"id":287,"date":"2012-01-10T00:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=287"},"modified":"2012-01-12T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:09:40","slug":"taking-you-to-the-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"TAKING YOU TO THE BREAKING POINT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>CATSA CLAIMS THEY MUST ENSURE THE SAFETY OF AIR TRAVELLERS AT YOUR EXPENSE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Toronto, ON- The Canadian Air Transport Security Agency (CATSA) will push Canada\u2019s airport security past the breaking point if it makes further cuts to passenger screening funding says the Machinists Union. It places the safety of the Canadian air travelling public on the line!<\/p>\n<p>Over many years, the members of our union who work as airport security screeners have been a key element in maintaining the safety of the Canadian air transport system. They are among more than 7,000 screeners employed in this industry. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Spring of 2011, CATSA cut screener hours by up to 22 per cent despite an increase in air passenger traffic,\u201d said IAMAW Canadian General Vice President Dave Ritchie. The funding cuts resulted in 500 employees losing their jobs and 300 more were moved from full-time to part-time hours<strong>. \u201c<\/strong>These radical service reductions substantially reduced the accuracy of frontline screening placing our national security at risk. The stress levels of frontline screeners increased yet there were no cuts in the CATSA head office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CATSA is about to impose further radical reductions in frontline screening budgets and hours. When these cuts are made, it will increase worker stress and have a negative impact on the careers of skilled and committed security workers. \u201cHow do you justify this action when the only cuts in the CATSA budget were to frontline workers?\u00a0 It does not make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers insist this can\u2019t continue,\u201d declared Ritchie. \u201cFurther budget cuts for frontline security are simply unacceptable and unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the federal government to ensure that CATSA bureaucracy is not allowed to erode the safety of our air transport system through further cuts to airport screening budgets and frontline security staff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further information:<\/p>\n<p>Dave Ritchie \u2013 IAMAW Canadian General Vice President<\/p>\n<p>416-386-1789 ext# 6323<\/p>\n<p>Bill Trbovich \u2013 IAMAW Director of Communications<\/p>\n<p>416-386-1789 ext# 6331\/416-735-9765<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CATSA CLAIMS THEY MUST ENSURE THE SAFETY OF AIR TRAVELLERS AT YOUR EXPENSE! Toronto, ON- The Canadian Air Transport Security Agency (CATSA) will push Canada\u2019s airport security past the breaking point if it makes further cuts to passenger screening funding says the Machinists Union. It places the safety of the Canadian air travelling public on the line! Over many years, the members of our union who work as airport security screeners have been a key element in maintaining the safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}