{"id":8727,"date":"2020-05-13T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/district140.iamaw.ca\/?p=8727"},"modified":"2020-05-13T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T04:13:45","slug":"iamaw-canada-stan-pickthall-letter-to-calin-rovinescu-extension-of-cews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/?p=8727","title":{"rendered":"IAMAW Canada – Stan Pickthall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Letter to Calin Rovinescu \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Extension of CEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stan Pickthall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Letter to Calin Rovinescu \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Extension of CEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 13, 2020<\/p>\n

Sent by email<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Air Canada
\n7373 C\u00c3\u00b4te Vertu West
\nSt. Laurent, QC H4S 1Z3
\nAttention: Calin Rovinescu, Chief Executive Officer<\/b><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Rovinescu:<\/p>\n

Re: Extension of Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy Program<\/b><\/p>\n

I am writing to follow up on\u00c2\u00a0my email dated March 31, 2020<\/strong><\/a>, in which I urged Air Canada to participate fully in the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program, which had at that time been recently announced. I am pleased that with the support of the Unions and the Company, we were able to provide this additional benefit to most of the IAM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members employed by Air Canada.<\/p>\n

The CEWS benefit pays $347 per week more than the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit of $500 per week, over a 12 week period. This equates to $4164 in added financial support for each Air Canada employee and their families during the time of their greatest need. I am encouraged by the Company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ongoing support of its employees during this pandemic, which has hit both the Company and its employees very hard.<\/p>\n

On behalf of more than 10,000 IAM members who work for the Company, I now write to encourage Air Canada to continue its support of all employees. We have all heard the recent announcement of the Federal Government, which proposes to extend the CEWS beyond the June 6th\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>termination date. While details of the program have not been announced at this time, I write to urge you once again to step up on behalf of the employees who built Air Canada into a world-class Company.<\/p>\n

I am formally requesting that Air Canada participate in the extension of the CEWS program, details of which are soon to be announced. The Union will work with you to ensure this valuable benefit continues to be available for IAM members during this challenging time.<\/i><\/p>\n

Keeping your employees on the payroll will ensure that the most crucial part of your corporate infrastructure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a skilled and experienced workforce at every level of the company \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is kept in place. I urge you not to delay, but to act immediately.<\/p>\n

Yours truly,<\/p>\n

Stan Pickthall<\/strong>
\nGeneral Vice President<\/p>\n

cc. Fred Hospes, President \u00e2\u20ac\u201cDistrict 140
\nKeith Aiken, IAM Transportation Coordinator
\nAir Canada General Chairpersons \u00e2\u20ac\u201c District 140<\/p>\n

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Stan Pickthall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Letter to Calin Rovinescu \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Extension of CEWS May 13, 2020 Sent by email Air Canada 7373 C\u00c3\u00b4te Vertu West St. Laurent, QC H4S 1Z3 Attention: Calin Rovinescu, Chief Executive Officer Dear Mr. Rovinescu: Re: Extension of Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy Program I am writing to follow up on\u00c2\u00a0my email dated March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[68,63,67],"class_list":["post-8727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletins-en","tag-air-canada","tag-canada","tag-dl140"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8728,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions\/8728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/one.iamaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}