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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…

As we transition into this post pandemic economy, many new realities have started to affect us all. Some of you have contacted the Union to discuss the extreme impacts you are having to deal with in regards to inflation and cost of living. District 140 has held many discussions with the Membership and the subject of the Federal Government’s law against pay discrimination has repeatedly come up. Read Bulletin here…

Your 2022 Bargaining Committee has concluded its preliminary preparations ahead of the anticipated CBA opener, as prescribed by Appendix XXXXIV.

The membership survey results were analyzed in-depth. Each and every comment was read by the entire committee and discussed at length. We have heard your concerns and will incorporate them to the fullest extent possible into our final agenda. Read Bulletin here…

Air Canada has issued a final notice to IAMAW members who have not complied with the Company’s
mandatory vaccine policy. Air Canada has notified employees who remain non-compliant that they will be
discharged as of May 2nd, 2022. Read Bulletin here…

The response to the Bargaining survey thus far has been encouraging and insightful. Your Bargaining Committee has convened in Vancouver for two weeks of preparation. As time is of the essence, the online survey will be closed Sunday, March 6th as of midnight so that we may review all responses. Your input is essential to our mutual success. If you haven’t done so already, please fill out and submit your survey response before the Sunday deadline.  Read Bulletin here…

Your TMOS Bargaining Committee has commenced preparations for the 2022 opener. A critical component when building an agenda to present to the company is knowing what areas of improvement the membership would like us to focus on. To that end, we have prepared a comprehensive online survey. Your bargaining committee reads and analyzes the data compiled from these surveys to prioritize your preferences.  Read Bulletin here…       A link to the survey

Given the diversity of our membership and that our members work in many sectors and industries, the IAM is launching an initiative to better understand issues our members face in their workplaces. We’ve developed brief surveys specific to sectors where our members work, and are inviting members to take this opportunity and share their perspectives with us.Link to Survey

MOTION: For the Local Lodges than cannot comply with Article 4.03 of the District 140 Bylaws because of the provincial COVID-19 restrictions, we seek dispensation from Article 4.03 in the manner that the nominations be held in April 2022 and the elections be held in May 2022. MOVED. Seconded. Unanimously Carried. Read Bulletin here…

We have been advised that Homewood Health Services has completed an investigation into a recent security breach, as is explained further on their website at https://homewoodhealth.com/corporate/data-incident . The EFAP have been asked to post the following Homewood notice to employees. Read Bulletin here…

This is the official announcement of the 2022 IAM Photography Contest. It is open to all IAM members in good standing. Entries should catch IAM members at work in unposed photos. Winning entries will win a cash prize and will appear in the 2023 IAM Calendar. Two dollars from each calendar sale is donated to Guide Dogs of America/Tender Loving Canines (GDA/TLC). Read Bulletin here…

This bulletin is to advise all Transportation District 140 members of the IAMAW Multi-Employer Pension Plan (MEPP) that the MEPP administration office will be moving effective February 1, 2022. The new mailing address for the MEPP is: 116 Lisgar Street – Suite 204, Ottawa, ON, K2P 0C2

All Members should use this new address effective immediately as the return mailing address for all enrollment forms, beneficiary change forms, address change forms or any other correspondence with the MEPP Administrator.  Read Bulletin here…

The 2022 IAM Scholarship Competition is accepting applications and has added a new program which will allow entrants the option to apply online. The competition is open to members of the IAM and their children throughout the United States and Canada.

If you opt to apply via mail-in, the application packet must be postmarked by February 11, 2022, and received no later than February 23, 2022.

Applications, rules, and general information can be found on the 2022 IAM Scholarship Competition page.

In 2021, the IAM awarded 16 scholarships valued at $64,000. The winners were selected out of over 300 applicants

The enactment of various provincial health restrictions designed to reduce the spread of the Covid-19
pandemic have prevented your IAMAW Air Canada Pension Committee from holding any in-person
pension seminars during most of 2020 and all of 2021.
At this time, it is still not possible to confirm seminar dates for any Local Lodge or city. However,
members are asked to monitor their Local Lodge websites and bulletin boards as we move later into
the spring of 2022. Pension Seminar notices will be posted (typically one month in advance) in each
Local Lodge when we are able to schedule them. Read Bulletin here…