{"id":1100,"date":"2015-05-07T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2015-05-20T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:29:52","slug":"air-canada-dismantles-fuel-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada Dismantles Fuel Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air Canada Dismantles Fuel Consortium<\/strong>
Hundreds of Airport Fuelers Lose Jobs!<\/strong>
Thursday May 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Toronto, On \u2013 Air Canada walked away from long-term agreements with aviation fuel providers
in Montreal and Toronto this week. When it was joined by West Jet, Air Transat and others, it
meant the dismantling of the Canadian airline fuel consortium and the loss of hundreds of good
paying jobs.
\u201cConsolidated Aviation Fueling informed me, that three years ago Air Canada signed a ten year
commitment, subject to senior Air Canada management approval, that Consolidated Aviation
Fueling, would provide its fuel in Montreal,\u201d said IAM District Lodge 140 General Chairperson
George Kuehnl. \u201cWednesday afternoon, representatives of Allied Aviation, Consolidated\u2019s
parent, informed members of IAM Local Lodge 2301 that 90 per cent of their jobs would be
terminated July 1st because Air Canada was switching to a non-union supplier \u2013 Swissport. Air
Canada broke its promises and walked away.\u201d
Air Canada will exercise a similar move today in Toronto where it is responsible for more than
60 per cent of the fuel volume at Pearson International Airport. \u201cThe members of IAM Local
Lodge 2413 are going to be furious because Air Canada led us to believe they were committed to
Consolidated as its sole fuel provider,\u201d explained an irate Michael Corrado, IAM District Lodge
140 General Chairperson.
The Montreal-Toronto fuel consortium is the oldest and most experienced in the country
supplying Canada\u2019s major airlines for more than fifty years of first class services. \u201cWe have
members with as much as 47 years experience and now they\u2019re faced with a job that has no
pension, no benefits and near minimum wage,\u201d said Corrado. \u201cWhy do 300 people have to lose
their jobs just so an airline can squeeze another dollar into their pockets, it\u2019s another example of
corporate greed.\u201d
The IAM caught wind of Air Canada\u2019s intentions as far back as mid-October 2014. In the first
week of December the IAM filed a Common Employer Application and Unfair Labour Practices
with the Canada Industrial Relations Board. \u201cThe IAM also asked the board for an interim order
requesting the prevention of any tendering of contracts which would affect members\u2019 jobs, until
the board has reviewed the matter,\u201d said IAM District Lodge 140 President and Directing
General Chairperson Fred Hospes. \u201cMaybe this will light a fire under the board to get moving on
these applications.\u201d<\/p>\n

For further information:
Fred Hospes \u2013 IAM District Lodge 140 President & Directing General Chairperson
604-448-0721\/778-829-8140
George Kuehnl \u2013 IAM District Lodge 140 General Chairperson
514-336-3031
Michael Corrado \u2013 IAM District Lodge 140 General Chairperson
905-671-3192
Bill Trbovich \u2013 IAM Director of Communications
416-386-1789 ext 6331\/416-735-9765<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Air Canada Dismantles Fuel ConsortiumHundreds of Airport Fuelers Lose Jobs!Thursday May 7, 2015 DOWNLOAD OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE\u00a0 Toronto, On \u2013 Air Canada walked away from long-term agreements with aviation fuel providersin Montreal and Toronto this week. When it was joined by West Jet, Air Transat and others, itmeant the dismantling of the Canadian airline fuel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletins","category-consolidated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}