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For this reason, our counselling reimbursement plan ($750 single/$1500 family) will
terminate. To ensure that all claims are paid before termination, members with outstanding
claims must submit their claim through Claims Secure before November 15, 2022. Any claims
submitted after Nov 15, 2022, will not be reimbursed. Read Bulletin here…

Please be advised that during this hearing, the Union and our legal team have presented our case.
Due to the complexity of the grievance, further dates will be required in order for the arbitration to
continue; this includes allotting time for the company to present their case to the arbitrator. Read Bulletin here…

The September 30th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation will again be recognized in 2022 and on a going-forward basis will form a part of your Collective Agreement. The credit for the Holiday will be applied the same as last year, as per Article 12, regardless of shift pattern. Read Bulletin here…

As a follow up to Bulletin No. 37 dated August 2021, the parties have now secured another date with Arbitrator Corinn Bell to continue, and hopefully conclude, the CAT 38 grievances. The matter will move forward on February 9, 2023. Read Bulletin here…

Further to Bulletin No. 32 dated June 5, 2021, significant and positive progress has been made in
regard to the Off-Duty Status (ODS) grievance argued successfully at arbitration on May 12, 2021. Read Bulletin here…

Further to Bulletin No. 028 dated July 21st, 2022, District Lodge 140 advised our members that we
will provide further information as to when the next dates the National Vaccine Policy Arbitration will
be held.
Please be advised that Arbitrator Ready has offered the Union and the Company with another date,
which both parties and our legal teams have agreed on. The next date that the National Vaccine
Policy Grievance Arbitration will be heard is Wednesday, October 12th, 2022. Read Bulletin here…

Attached is the Air Canada TMOS – 2019 Bargaining Summary. Read here…

Further to Bulletin No. 022 dated June 1st, the National Vaccine Policy grievance hearing commenced
on July 19th, in front of Arbitrator Vince Ready. Both parties were represented by their respective legal counsel and the Committee of General Chairpersons was in attendance. Read Bulletin here…

Your 2022 Negotiations Committee recently reconvened with the Company for two (2) weeks of bargaining. The week of June 20th in Vancouver and the week of June 27th in Toronto.
These early stages of bargaining have mainly focused on detailed discussion, but some progress has been made. There is a myriad of issues to be addressed, as identified by the Membership in the Bargaining Survey. Read Bulletin here…

In the past three (3) days we saw management invoke forced overtime clauses in our contract to stave off several flights from being cancelled. The Union vehemently objects using these clauses in our contract to limp the operation forward. Forcing overtime is not a sustainable plan for our summer operation Read Bulletin here…

Your 2022 Negotiations Committee convened in Toronto from May 30th to June 10th. The first week of meetings were internal and resulted in both the Customer Service and TechOps Committees finalizing their individual and common agendas.  Read Bulletin here…

This bulletin is to advise all Transportation District 140 members of the IAMAW Multi-Employer Pension
Plan (MEPP), of a change to the MEPP enrollment process for new members. All new hire Transportation District 140 members who are hired with any of the ten (10) participating employers in the MEPP will receive an enrollment kit from the MEPP.
Effective immediately, all new hire members who are members of the MEPP, including those at Air Canada, should now submit their MEPP enrollment forms electronically via the MEPP website. The MEPP website can be accessed at www.iammepp.ca   Read Bulletin here…

Further to Bulletin No. 015 dated April 2, 2022, District Lodge 140 is pleased to advise that the parties have agreed to hear the national grievance regarding Air Canada’s mandatory vaccine policy on July 19th, in front of Arbitrator Vince Ready.  Read Bulletin here…

Air Canada has informed the Union that it will continue the Work Placement Program (Co-op), as early as June 1st. Your Union has reminded Air Canada that our signed Memorandum of Agreement applicable to the Co-Op program prohibits the implementation of students while Cat 1, 13 and 38 maintain recall. Read Bulletin here…

On April 28, 2022, PDGC Dave Flowers and I met with Air Canada regarding EAP Funding. Due to a
change made by the Government of Canada, Air Canada and the IAMAW no longer qualify for the
Government’s Employee Insurance Reduction Plan. The EI Reduction plan has funded the EFAP for
the past 20 years. Read Bulletin here…

Executive Board Elections will be held at our upcoming DL140 Convention being held in Ottawa, Ontario on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday October 25, 26 & 27, 2022.
There are to be nine (9) Board Members to be elected – one (1) from “Air Transport”, one (1) from “Service” and one (1) “At-Large”, from each of the three (3) Regions. The Western Region includes British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Central Region includes Ontario. The Eastern Region includes Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces.
Any Member in good standing and meeting the qualification requirements in Article 5.07 of the DL140 Bylaws will be eligible to run. Those qualifications are: Read Bulletin here…

District 140 Auditor Elections will be held at our upcoming DL140 Convention being held in Ottawa, Ontario on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, October 25, 26 & 27, 2022.

There are to be to be three (3) Auditors elected in total, one (1) Western Region, one (1) Central Region and one (1) from the Eastern and Atlantic Regions combined. Read Bulletin here…

Last June, District Lodge 140 filed a grievance on behalf of some Members that did not receive severance pay after being placed on lay-off status for one (1) year or more.
The Company took the position that Members who did not elect to exercise certain bumping privileges under the terms of the Collective Agreement would forfeit entitlement to severance pay. Read Bulletin here…

The last few weeks have been very stressful for those Members that are currently held out of service
due to their vaccine status, and Air Canada’s recent notification to terminate their employment
effective May 2nd, 2022. Read Bulletin here…

The outstanding issue regarding eligibility of the pension cap increase retroactivity for those IAMAW Members who retired under the provisions of the ERIP has been resolved favorably.

At the beginning of April, the Pension Department will send a letter containing details and instruction to the home addresses of affected Members. Your Union has been advised Members will have four (4) weeks from receipt of notification to respond via email and indicate selection. Read Bulletin here…