Vancouver airport workers reach agreement, strike avoided
Swissport employees provide cleaning and baggage services at YVR
Officials representing 855 workers who provide cleaning and baggage services at Vancouver International Airport say an agreement has been reached with the employer, Swissport International Ltd.
The IAM and Swissport Canada have reached an agreement. There will be no strike at Vancouver International Airport. No details yer
—@iamtrbo"There will be no strike, operations will be as usual," said Bill Trbovich, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) director of communications in an email to CBC News as bargaining concluded Saturday evening.
Details of the deal have not been released.
The Swissport International Ltd. workers, who are members of IAM, Transport District Lodge 140 had rejected, on Monday, a tentative agreement reached earlier this month.
The same day, the union voted 71 per cent in favour of a strike.
The union said the workers had been without a contract for more than a year.
The workers provide baggage and grooming services and manage the airport's baggage belt services. The employees service more than 20 airlines that use the airport, according to the union.
They do not provide baggage handling for Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways, Swift Air, Central Mountain Air, Air North and Aeromexico.