{"id":763,"date":"2012-10-23T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=763"},"modified":"2012-11-03T03:50:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T03:50:47","slug":"763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA RELEASE&#8211; Ottawa Rolls the Dice with Air Travel Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Ottawa Rolls the Dice with Air Travel Safety\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Devastating Cuts to Airport Security Screeners an Unnecessary Risk!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Toronto, ON \u2013 \u201cOur federal government is rolling the dice with the safety of the travelling public in this country by reducing the number of airport security screeners across Canada,\u201d said an angry Dave Ritchie, Canadian General Vice President of the IAM, the largest airport security screener union in the country.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lineups at airport security check-ins across the country are already too long because there aren\u2019t enough screeners and to cut that number by 15 per cent will be devastating and so will the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Airport security providers are being forced to cut the hours of their security screeners and that translates into massive layoffs. Garda Security will eliminate more than 200 full time screeners or 15 per cent of its work force at Toronto\u2019s Pearson Airport while G4S Secure Solutions Canada Limited is cutting 60 full time screeners in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur members can\u2019t even get a bathroom break because they\u2019re understaffed and the pressure to move people through quickly intensifies every day,\u201d explained Ritchie. \u201cYou think you have lineups now, it\u2019s only going to get worse and I\u2019m afraid passenger safety is going to fall through the cracks in the name of the almighty dollar. Ottawa is playing with people\u2019s lives. Our members are already under tremendous pressure due to insufficient numbers and now their employers reward them with no job or at best part time hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada cannot afford another \u2018XL Foods\u2019 situation to occur in the airline industry, the Harper government must reverse these cuts,\u201d said Ritchie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Rolls the Dice with Air Travel Safety\u00a0Devastating Cuts to Airport Security Screeners an Unnecessary Risk! \u00a0Toronto, ON \u2013 \u201cOur federal government is rolling the dice with the safety of the travelling public in this country by reducing the number of airport security screeners across Canada,\u201d said an angry Dave Ritchie, Canadian General Vice President of the IAM, the largest airport security screener union in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/screeners.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}