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Toronto, ON – The IAMAW and their legal counsel Hugh O’Reilly of Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre and Cornish, met with interested investors seeking to restructure Aveos Fleet Performance Inc. earlier this week in Montreal. “The IAMAW has a strong interest to assist and work with potential investors interested in restructuring Aveos Fleet Performance Inc.,” said IAMAW District 140 Western Region Directing General Chairperson Fred Hospes. “We have approximately 2600 members out

Toronto, ON – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers says government support of Aveos is not just an economic issue but a moral issue as well. In a submission in Ottawa this morning to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities on the closure of Aveos Fleet Performance, the IAMAW asked if the government was prepared to stand by and watch the demise of

Toronto, ON – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers announced today it has launched a court challenge to the legislation known as Bill C-33, used by the Conservative government to deny Machinists members to right to strike Air Canada and to send them into a biased arbitration process. The government’s heavy-handed use of this back to work legislation prevented 8,300 Machinists members at Air Canada from taking legal

Toronto, ON –“Thomas Mulcair has been a strong supporter of the Machinists on past issues and we’re confident we can work with him in the future,” said IAMAW Canadian General Vice President Dave Ritchie. Ritchie made that statement moments after Thomas Mulcair won the federal NDP Leadership on the fourth ballot at the NDP leadership convention in Toronto over the weekend. “He has been in our corner throughout the Air

 TORONTO – The Aveos shutdown breaches key sections of the Air Canada Public Participation Act, New Democrats argued today. The Act mandates that Air Canada’s overhaul operations must remain in Winnipeg, Mississauga and Montreal. This ensured that Canadians would continue to benefit after the privatization of the airline. The overhaul work was previously contracted out to Aveos, which ceased operations this week. New Democrat critic for Transport, Olivia Chow, spoke