Fueling

[mrado]

The whole issue is and was that consolidated (a Monopoly) was not providing the required service level to the airlines, not just Air Canada. That is not anyone's fault but consolidated. the choice to change providers is operational and economical. If your employer bids on a contract with a lowball offer you can expect that employer to higher the cheapest staff possible because he lowballed and now needs to make money, again NOT the airlines fault.

Consolidated is not the Monopoly, ASIG (the old PLH) is the monopoly as they are essentially at every airport across Canada except Toronto and Montreal.

Funny because Consolidated has a very high degree of service to the airlines. These facts and figures are reviewed regularly and at the fuel consortium annual meetings.

The choice to change providers is partially economical, partially to eliminate any possibility of strikes and to rid themselves of employees who have been long exposed to carcinogens.

After all, these companies are the perfect virtual management teams. They own absolutely nothing. Not even the paper or pens...nothing. They just get a management fee to run the operation. And if 1 or 2 management people make a mistake...well just throw 300 essential service workers to the soup kitchen unemployment lineups.

Another classic example of contract flipping with no successorship.

Just wonderful when you have workers at Pearson who have been doing the exact same job for decades and still only get 2 weeks vacation per year and close to minimum wage pay.