{"id":1840,"date":"2017-06-14T21:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T01:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2017-06-14T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T01:12:18","slug":"job-security-plain-and-simple-and-british-airways-machinists-got-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"Job security plain and simple and British Airways Machinists got it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IAM-Union.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1844\" src=\"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IAM-Union.jpg\" alt=\"IAM Union\" width=\"235\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toronto, ON \u2013 \u201cThe members and the bargaining committee at British Airways took a long hard look before the talks began and this round of bargaining was about job security, plain and simple!\u201d explained IAM Transportation District Lodge 140 General Chairperson Mike Corrado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter watching the numerous contract flips at Toronto Pearson and Dorval Airports over the past few years, this group chose to negotiate job security provisions into their collective agreement in order to protect their livelihoods. We built into this agreement a no subcontracting out provisions that will remain in place for the term of the contract,\u201d added Corrado.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement also provides much enhanced severance entitlements for experienced part-time employees that will act as additional job security in the years ahead. \u201cThe CBA already has good severance provisions for full-time members and with additional negotiated severance for experienced part-time employees, it would impose a great cost on the employer in the future if they ever contemplated contracting out any of our work,\u201d said Corrado.<\/p>\n<p>Other agreement highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A $1,000.00 signing bonus to all bargaining unit members<\/li>\n<li>Boot allowance doubled to $200.00<\/li>\n<li>Preservation of existing wage scales and normal wage scale progression<\/li>\n<li>Layoff notice period for part-time members increased to 4 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis deal will allow British Airways to remain profitable without having to contemplate flipping their customer service work to service companies that pay close to minimum wage,\u201d explained Corrado. \u201cThis also places us in a better position in the next round of bargaining as the market wage rate gap between what British Airways pays versus the many third party service providers, should shrink as the minimum wage rate increases in Ontario and hopefully Qu\u00e9bec over the next couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was sound decision making by our 41 customer service agents and their bargaining committee and that\u2019s why we had such strong ratification acceptance,\u201d said Corrado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON \u2013 \u201cThe members and the bargaining committee at British Airways took a long hard look before the talks began and this round of bargaining was about job security, plain and simple!\u201d explained IAM Transportation District Lodge 140 General Chairperson Mike Corrado. \u201cAfter watching the numerous contract flips at Toronto Pearson and Dorval Airports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-airways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","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=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2413.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}