The Machinists’ Union will soon be holding its annual blood donor clinic. This year’s event will take place on Thursday, February 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Place Vertu shopping centre, 3131 Côte Vertu Blvd., in St. Laurent. We’re counting on your generosity, either by giving blood or spreading the word around!
District Lodge 140 has been in constant discussions with Air Canada…
District Lodge 140 met with the Company for the past two weeks…
Please note that the offices of Transportation District 140…
Following our last bulletin, the members of the negotiations committee…
Following the tentative agreeement reached in November…
Following our last bulletin, we wish to inform you…
The members of your negotiations committee will be meeting with the company…
As a result of the election of Fred Hospes to the position of President and Directing General Chairperson…
Please be advised that Transportation District 140 will hold its 2013 Annual Convention…
On November 29, General Vice President Dave Ritchie, Airline Coordinator Carlos DaCosta…
A ratification vote was held…
The Court of Appeal of Québec issued its decision on November 14. We are pleased to inform you…
Here is the result of the vote held yesterday…
You will find on the following pages…
Brother Christopher Hiscock will be in Montreal to present an additional information session…
For your information, the members of your negotiations committee…
Following the tentative agreement recently reached between the parties…
Please be advised that the IAMAW/EAP Counselling Reimbursement Plan for former Aveos employees…
After numerous discussions with the Company, we have been unable to reach an agreement…
Following Servisair’s recent announcement to integrate the operations…
Please note that the Eastern Region offices of District 140 will be closed today…
After direct negotiation meetings all throughout last week…
Last October 18, District 140 published a bulletin to invite members across the country…
An arbitration hearing in front of Chief Arbitrator Teplitsky has been scheduled…
After meeting with the Company last Friday, November 2, to continue negotiations…
This year’s Transportation District 140 Convention was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia…
On October 17, 2012, at Air Canada’s request…
This is to inform you that…
Please be advised that, in November, Brother Christopher Hiscock will be doing road shows…
Arbitrator Teplitsky’s Award required publication on the Union’s website…
Following bulletin 95, please note that the election…
Following the tentative agreement reached on September 28…
Please be advised that…
Thank you for taking the time to nominate colleagues to represent you…
Now that the arbitrator has ruled on the amount and distribution of Separation Packages…
Please note that the offices of District 140…
District Lodge 140 employs two (2) organizers…
Your Bargaining Committee has been in direct negotiations with the Company…
We met with Air Canada during the week of September 24, 2012…
After a week of direct negotiations with the Company, we are pleased to announce…
Following our last bulletin on this matter…
Following our message posted on September 24, we will be holding an information session…
Today, September 21, was my last day as general chairperson of District 140…
We ask you to please ensure that your local lodge has on file your correct address and telephone number…
Following our most recent bulletin (no. 80) on this topic…
You are hereby invited to attend a special meeting…
This is to inform you that we met with the Company last Thursday and Friday…
The members of your negotiations committee will be meeting in Toronto…
Please note that the offices of Transportation District 140…
This is an update on the Aveos Heavy Maintenance Separation Packages arbitration…
As many of you are aware by now, the Union has had to resort to taking the issue to arbitration…
Please be advised of the following decision…
Please note that the Western and Central Region offices…
Like you, we were very much surprised to learn earlier this week…
Is a question that we all have been asking since June 17, 2012, when Arbitrator Picher’s decision came out. Well let’s first look at what has transpired since then.
This bulletin follows bulletin no. 59 in which we notified you that Servisair…
Elections will be held at this year’s District Lodge 140 Convention for the following positions…
Please note that the offices of Transportation District 140 will be closed…
Here is the result of the two votes held yesterday, June 28…
Following the tentative agreement reached between the parties…
In recent days, wild rumours about the Air Canada Pension Plan have been circulating…
Following our last bulletin on this matter…
Arbitrator Michel Picher released his award regarding the contract dispute…
Following the tentative agreement reached between the parties…
The parties reached a tentative agreement on the morning of June 12…
As scheduled, the members of your negotiations committee met with the company on June 4, 5 and 6…
The IAMAW has been advised that the Aveos divestiture process is being extended…
Your negotiations team presented its final position to arbitrator Michel Picher…
We are now in the final selection arbitration process…
This is to notify you that the members of your negotiations committee…
As Air Canada and the IAMAW were in Court in Montreal last Friday, May 18, for the purposes of the Aveos CCAA process…
District 140 was informed this morning that Servisair has purchased Handlex Ground Services…
Your Negotiations Committee met with Air Canada over the last two weeks…
Following your meeting with the Company yesterday, the District 140 representatives…
Please note that the offices of Transportation District 140 will be closed on Monday, May 21…
We wish to inform you that your committee and the employer have agreed to hold a first meeting on…
On May 2, 2012, District Lodge General Chairmen met in Toronto with General Vice President Dave Ritchie…
The Labour Minister has appointed Arbitrator Michel Picher to deal with our negotiations with Air Canada…
Your negotiations committee met with the company all throughout the week of April 23…
After it was announced on April 20th that Air Canada had agreed to return to the bargaining table with the Air Canada Pilots Association…
Your negotiations committee met with the Company in direct negotiations during the week of April 23…
Your negotiations committee has been meeting with the Company since the expiration of the previous collective agreement…
On April 19, 2012, an arbitration hearing was held before Chief Arbitrator Martin Teplitsky regarding Air Canada’s obligation…
Your Negotiations Committee met with Air Canada from April 3 to 5…
The IAMAW and Air Canada have been advised by the office of Labour Minister Lisa Raitt…
Both District 140 and your local lodge recognize that there is no greater time than the present to provide assistance…
On April 2 and 3 in Montreal, Transportation District 140 General Chairperson Fred Hospes and our legal counsel…
Yesterday, in Ottawa, a delegation from the IAMAW appeared before the Standing Committee on Transport…
In an effort to answer some of the questions that have arisen since the bankruptcy of Aveos…
Your negotiations committee met internally last week in order to prepare…
Your negotiations committee members met with the Company last week…
Meeting with Air Canada on March 28, 2012, concerning Aveos ceasing operations.
It seems that Aveos is liquidating their business in the same manner they entered the business…
In his latest letter to employees, Calin Rovinescu expressed his concern for the “abrupt and irresponsible manner” in which “their employees”…
I write this bulletin today, not just as a Union representative, but as a friend and colleague…
Cease and Desist Order from arbitrator Martin Teplitsky dated March 23, 2012
By now, most people should be aware that Aveos has declared that they are totally insolvent…
On Sunday, March 18, 2012, at around 1700 hours, we were informed that Aveos had closed the doors…
This follows the information sessions that took place recently in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver…
During this week’s bargaining session on March 13 and 14, the company representatives asked…
Labour Minister Lisa Raitt introduced back-to-work legislation in the House of Commons…
Transportation District 140 representatives and Local Lodge representatives from across the system…
It now appears that Mr. Chuck Frosst, Aveos’s Vice-President, Human Resources, and his base directors have chosen to bargain directly…
As reported in the media, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt unilaterally referred the dispute…
The members of your negotiations committee continued direct negotiations with the Company…
As reported in the media, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt unilaterally referred the dispute between the IAMAW and Air Canada…
Regarding the strike action that may take place on the morning of Monday, March 15…
As bargaining between the Union and the Company has reached an impasse, the Aveos bargaining committee…
Regarding the strike action that may take place on the morning of Monday, March 12…
After months and months of hard bargaining, IAMAW members working at Air Canada will be in a legal strike position…
This is to advise all IAMAW members that yesterday, at around 5:30 p.m., talks between the TMOS bargaining team and Air Canada broke off…
Conciliation Commissioner’s Report
As was previously reported, a meeting was held in Toronto on Wednesday, February 29…
Members of your Gantt committee met with Air Canada and Aveos management on February 28…
In the member survey conducted in December 2010…
In the member survey conducted in December 2010, you had asked the negotiations committee…
The members of your negotiations committee continued direct negotiations…
The recent ratification and strike vote sent a very clear message to Air Canada…
The result of the ratification vote on the tentative agreement is…
Please be advised that Aveos has cancelled the bargaining sessions scheduled next week…
Your negotiations committee met with Air Transat on February 15 and 16…
An arbitration hearing was held in Toronto on February 15, 2012, to address the following matters…
In the member survey conducted in December 2010, you had asked the negotiations committee…
Following the tentative agreement (TA) reached between the TMOS bargaining group and Air Canada…
In the member survey conducted in December 2010, you had asked the negotiations committee to review the pension plan…
Your bargaining committee met with the Company during the week of February 6th…
Your bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement today in the wee hours of the morning…
Aveos informed the Union today that it is going to proceed with layoffs across the system….
Based on the results of the employee survey conducted in December 2010…
You are hereby invited to attend a meeting on issues that are of concern to you…
An arbitration hearing on the subcontracting of the CF34-10 engines took place in Toronto last Thursday, February 2…
The members of your Air Canada and Aveos negotiations committees met this week in Vancouver…
Throughout the week, your negotiations team continued meeting in Montreal with Air Canada…
The Union met with both Air Canada and Aveos to discuss the 2012 heavy maintenance events and the staffing levels required…
Your negotiations committee members will be meeting during the week of January 30…
The members of your negotiations committee met with the company in direct negotiations…
For several weeks now, certain signs were leading us to believe that Aveos no longer wanted to perform the maintenance of the CF34-10 engines of Embraer’s…
Your negotiations team has been meeting over the past two weeks with Air Canada and the conciliation commissioner appointed by the government…
Your negotiations committee met with the Company in Montreal this week…
On January 12, 2012, an arbitration was held in Toronto with Air Canada and Aveos to deal with several issues…
On January 12, 2012, an arbitration hearing was held in Toronto to deal with some of the basic problems that we have been experiencing with ClaimSecure…
Here is an update on the case that was to be heard by the Appeal Court of Québec in the fall of 2011…
I met yesterday with lawyer Jean-François Lemay, the Air Transat spokesperson, to discuss and agree on the rules of conduct to follow…
On December 21, 2011, the Honourable Ms. Justice Louise Otis was appointed as Conciliation Commissioner…
I would first of all like to wish you a healthy and happy new year. In particular, I hope that the word RESPECT becomes more than a mere word for your respective employers…