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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe\nunion and the company have been in bargaining since early January 2019, with\nabout 25 full days of negotiations. Avcorp\u2019s first offer was rejected by the\nworker by a margin of 100% – a rarity these days. They then conducted a strike\nvote, with the employees voting 100% in favour of a strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The parties\nwent to three days of mediation, but there was no resolution, which\nprompted the company to apply for a Government-Supervised Final Offer\nVote. It was conducted by the BC Labour Board over three days in July and\nAugust. The\nmembers rejected it by a 98% margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe\ntwo main issues are contracting out and seniority retention,\u201d said IAM District\n250 Business Representative Paul Pelletreau, who also worked at Avcorp for\nmany years. \u201cAerospace is cyclical work, and the workers want to know that if\nthey are laid off, they maintain their seniority,\u201d he said. \u201cA laid-off worker\ncan have worked for 5 years, be laid off and then return and have to apply as\nif they had never worked there \u2013 it\u2019s just wrong,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Avcorp\nIndustries has, over the years, purchased facilities in Burlington, ON and\nGardena, CA. The union is not asking for substantive changes in the\ncontracting-out language, but simply to account for the two newer facilities.\nMembers want to be assured that their jobs are protected, when layoffs\noccur to have recall rights which provide them with some dignity. The IAM\nis committed to keeping good aerospace jobs in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\nmany cases, when IAM members at Avcorp are laid-off, their recall rights expire\nand they must start again as new employees, losing all wage levels and accrued\nbenefits. The last recall forced workers to take a pay cut of almost $4 per\nhour. A layoff period can last anywhere from two to four years. Similar work of\nthis high-skilled trade is unavailable in the Delta area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local\nLodge 11 represents some 450 men and women who work in the aerospace\ntrades at Avcorp Industries in Delta, British Columbia. They joined the IAM in\nApril 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nIAM in Canada represents more than 40,000 Canadian workers in air transport and\na wide range of manufacturing including aircraft, auto parts, buses, aerospace,\nelectronics, light and heavy machinery, tools and appliances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n – 30 –<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact:<\/strong> 17 September, 2019 For Immediate Release Delta, B.C. – Approximately 300 workers, members of IAM Local Lodge 11, were locked out by Avcorp Industries at 10:00 pm Monday evening. The company offered no rationale, but simply served the union notice and proceeded with the lockout. The union and the company have been in bargaining since early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iam-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Avcorp_Lockout_Gerlach_IMG_5778_1000px.jpg\")
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Paul Pelletreau, IAM District 250 Business Representative
Cell: (604) 839-6309
Frank Saptel, Communications Representative, IAM Canada
Cell: (416) 579-0481<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"