December 09, 2022
Sunwing pilots are celebrating information of the corporate’s resolution to desert its intention to make use of the Short-term Overseas Employee Program to spice up staffing ranges.
Unifor, a labor union representing Canada’s aviation sector, had raised issues about Sunwing’s proposal to rent momentary international staff to deal with the nation’s pilot scarcity in preparation for the winter journey surge.
“Our major concern from the get-go was coaching and security,” stated Unifor Nationwide President Lana Payne. “As a union, we count on rigorous evaluation earlier than an employer is allowed to make use of the TFWP. We’re happy that Sunwing selected to again away from utilizing TFWP and honor our collective settlement.”
Unifor launched a public marketing campaign after it realized of potential issues of safety from hiring pilots from international locations with much less rigorous coaching necessities. In mid-October, the union despatched letters to Sunwing President Len Corrado and Steven West, the director of the federal authorities’s Short-term Overseas Employee Program overseen by Employment and Social Growth Canada.
These letters stated Sunwing Airways wanted to do extra to fill open positions by hiring everlasting pilots inside Canada. The union really useful that West deny the airline’s momentary international employee purposes.
