Urgent Action Needed to Save Canadian Aviation Maintenance Industry!
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TORONTO, ONTARIO MEDIA ADVISORY–(Marketwire – Mar 9, 2010) – For Immediate ReleaseToronto, ON – The new proclamation by Air Canada/AVEOS of the layoff of some-more than one thousand aircraft upkeep mechanics is the ultimate denote which Canada is in risk of losing the place in this flourishing tellurian industry. “If we do not do something right now, these jobs and this attention aren’t entrance back,” spoken IAMAW Canadian General Vice-President Dave Ritchie. The IAMAW is job for an evident reply to this crisis.”Air Canada has not supposed the shortcoming for administering measures similar to an EI Worksharing program, to lessen the damage, in this time of tall unemployment,” pronounced IAMAW District 140 President and General Chairperson Chuck Atkinson. “There additionally needs to be larger await for precision and re-training programs to await impacted workers and communities.”"While the Mulroney government’s Air Canada privatization legislation contained a sequence for Air Canada to go on to have upkeep bases in Mississauga, Winnipeg and Montréal, this seems to have no discernible outcome on the company’s skeleton to proviso out a large partial of complicated upkeep work and boat it abroad, with the fundamental risks of weaker law and reduce standards,” explained Atkinson. “Canada is losing an attention which has substantial expansion intensity as a globally rival attention – an attention which could yield a flourishing series of highly-skilled high-technology jobs for immature Canadians,” pronounced Ritchie. “Canada needs an industrial plan to say and set up the genius of this zone – starting with made at home buying mandate for upkeep on Canadian-registered blurb aircraft being finished in Canada where probable and together with await for investment to update equipment.”The IAMAW calls on the governments to step up to this challenge. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is the largest kinship at Air Canada, representing over 11,000 workers. BackgrounderThe stroke of the arriving Air Canada/AVEOS layoffs subsequent month will be felt not usually in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal but in Air Canada stations opposite the country. In sequence to keep on working, most IAMAW members will have to move to an additional city around seniority bumping clauses in their common agreement. For them, this equates to the uprooting of families, ordering of homes in capricious genuine estate markets and prolonged durations divided from desired ones during this passing from one to an additional period. Air Canada/AVEOS employs about 3,250 upkeep crew behaving Heavy Maintenance (major overhaul) work. About 1,010 of those will laid off in Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Montreal. Many of these mechanics will practice their seniority rights and excommunicate youth mechanics in alternative cities such as Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa. In the finish technicians will be laid off opposite Canada. Because of the slack in air ride in Canada and worldwide, it will be really formidable for those laid off to find work in the industry.Winnipeg will remove about 50% of the Heavy Maintenance work. Winnipeg is losing 300 aircraft mechanics in Apr and an additional 45 in June. The Vancouver bottom will remove about 50% of the Heavy Maintenance work. Vancouver is losing 218 mechanics in total, with 60 layoffs in April, and the superfluous 158 in June. Montreal is the largest place for AVEOS Heavy Maintenance, contracting about 2,250 mechanics. In Montreal, 444 mechanics will be laid off. This represents the largest series of technicians being laid on in any one location. There is no specified date for these people to lapse to work.For all of these Canadian cities the subject becomes: Will there be an attention for them to come behind to and Will They Come Back?
/For serve information: For serve information:Chuck Atkinson – IAMAW District 140 President and General Chairperson905-671-3192 ext#224/416-833-8140George Bujold – IAMAW District 140 General Chairperson514-336-3031 ext#227/514-962-8140Carlos DaCosta – IAMAW Canadian Airline Coordinator416-386-1789 ext #6329/416-575-3492Bill Trbovich – IAMAW Director of Communications416-386-1789 ext#6331/416-735-9765/
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