November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Unifor represents more workers at YYC than CAWU has across Canada
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Legal bargaining timelines are active and enforceable
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The Maintenance of Activities application forcing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine your right to strike, not the employer
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Replacing Unifor restarts the legal process and removes progress already made
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Workers deserve stability, strength and leverage not uncertainty resets or delays
Across this airport, thousands of workers perform different jobs, but one thing is clear; workers at YYC are choosing Unifor because they want strength, stability, bargaining power and a union with real results.
Unifor is the largest private-sector union in Canada representing more than 320,000 workers including tens of thousands in airports. At Calgary International Airport alone, Unifor represents a strong growing network of more than 3,000 workers.
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WestJet employees
– Unifor Local 531
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PASS Screening Officers
– Unifor Local 2002
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Concorde Airport Services workers
– Unifor Local 4050
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Air Canada workers
– Unifor Local 2002
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Alliance Ground International
– Unifor Local 2002
There are more Unifor members working at YYC than CAWU has across all of Canada.
UNIFOR IS DELIVERING POWER NOT PROMISES
Workers across airports continue choosing Unifor because they have seen that:
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Bargaining is backed by real legal strategy
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Collective rights are defended and enforced
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When pressure is necessary, Unifor can apply it
Unifor represents workers at airports across Canada and is pushing industry standards forward not lowering expectations or starting over.
Unifor is already moving bargaining forward here and has triggered the legal timelines that ensure accountability and prevent employer delay.
YOU DESERVE UNITY NOT DIVISION
While thousands of airport workers at YYC are united and working toward improving wages, working conditions and industry standards together, a very small group of individuals is attempting to push workers toward the CAWU, a union with about 3,000 members across Canada, workers deserve to ask clear questions:
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What do these individuals gain from this?
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Why leave power behind when progress is already being built through unity?
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How does weakening bargaining leverage help workers instead of employers?
Workers succeed when everyone pulls in the same direction, not when a few try to fracture the power that thousands of airport workers have built together.
Unifor isn’t just your certified bargaining agent, it is a movement of 17,000 airport workers across the country working toward the same goals you are: higher wages, stronger rights, safer workplaces and real bargaining power.
USE THE POWER YOU ALREADY HAVE
You do not need another union. You need to build on the strength you already belong to.
If you want to stay with Unifor or if you already signed a CAWU card but changed your mind you can sign a revocation form. Many workers already have.
If you have not updated your Unifor membership card, please do so. There is no cost, and it helps us track support of those who want to be part of Unifor not CAWU.
This is your workplace, your rights and your future. Let's use the strength you already have and make it stronger.
In solidarity
Unifor Leadership Team
Billy O'Neill - Unifor National Organizing Department
[email protected]
Lucy Alessio - Unifor National Organizing Department
[email protected]
Joanne Goulet – Unifor National Service Representative
Tammy Moore – President, Unifor Local 2002
Harold Bateman – Assistant to the Unifor Local 2002 President
25-11-26 PASS - You Deserve Strength Not Uncertainty.txt