Operations unaffected as some Winnipeg airport staff go on strike
WINNIPEG — Flights and other operations were unaffected Monday as about 150 unionized support staff, maintenance workers and others at Winnipeg’s Richardson International Airport went on strike.
The workers — members of the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees and the Public Service Alliance of Canada — have been without a contract since June of last year. They set up pickets after seven days of talks with a federal mediator failed to make progress.
Marianne Hladun, executive vice-president with PSAC, said the airport authority’s negotiators seemed unwilling to meet.
“We waited for them to come back to the table … and as far as I’m aware, we’ve not been notified that they’re interested in going back to the table.”