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Unifor, the union that represents Ottawa cab drivers, has issued an open letter to the government and the Coventry Connections taxi company seeking provincial arbitration for its five-week labour dispute to allow 150 Airport Taxi branded cabs to return to work with their exclusive pickup rights at the airport.
The union, took out a full-page ad in the Citizen on Tuesday, addressed Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, Coventry Connections president Hanif Patni and the Ottawa Airport Authority president Mark Laroche.
In the ad, Unifor national president Jerry Dias demands that the “minister of labour shall appoint an arbitrator to bring an end to this dispute and bring in binding arbitration on all outstanding issues, the cost structure and collective agreements shall be returned to the pre-lockout conditions (and) drivers will return to work immediately, pending arbitration.”
“Without consultation with the drivers or with the City of Ottawa, which sets taxi fees, Coventry Connections and the Airport Authority met in secret and decided to increase they fees charged to the already-beleaguered taxi drivers,” Dias writes in the ad. “This money grab will net the two enterprises millions of dollars. For the driver, who work long hours at minimum wage levels, it made an already difficult situation impossible.”
The letter questions whether the controversial service agreement at the centre of the dispute between Coventry Connections and the Ottawa Airport Authority is in fact a new employment contract or a breach of the existing contract.
Coventry Connections negotiates service agreements for private taxi stands around the city, and its employees can pick up fares at these stands provided they are paying their dispatch fees. The new contract between Coventry Connections and the airport sees Coventry supply cabs to pick up passengers at the airport in exchange for a new dispatch fee ($4.50 per fare) while also removing the exclusive pickup agreement that 150 Airport branded taxi cabs had enjoyed at the facility.
There are now more than 600 cabs available to service passengers at the airport.
More to come
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The union, took out a full-page ad in the Citizen on Tuesday, addressed Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, Coventry Connections president Hanif Patni and the Ottawa Airport Authority president Mark Laroche.
In the ad, Unifor national president Jerry Dias demands that the “minister of labour shall appoint an arbitrator to bring an end to this dispute and bring in binding arbitration on all outstanding issues, the cost structure and collective agreements shall be returned to the pre-lockout conditions (and) drivers will return to work immediately, pending arbitration.”
“Without consultation with the drivers or with the City of Ottawa, which sets taxi fees, Coventry Connections and the Airport Authority met in secret and decided to increase they fees charged to the already-beleaguered taxi drivers,” Dias writes in the ad. “This money grab will net the two enterprises millions of dollars. For the driver, who work long hours at minimum wage levels, it made an already difficult situation impossible.”
The letter questions whether the controversial service agreement at the centre of the dispute between Coventry Connections and the Ottawa Airport Authority is in fact a new employment contract or a breach of the existing contract.
Coventry Connections negotiates service agreements for private taxi stands around the city, and its employees can pick up fares at these stands provided they are paying their dispatch fees. The new contract between Coventry Connections and the airport sees Coventry supply cabs to pick up passengers at the airport in exchange for a new dispatch fee ($4.50 per fare) while also removing the exclusive pickup agreement that 150 Airport branded taxi cabs had enjoyed at the facility.
There are now more than 600 cabs available to service passengers at the airport.
More to come
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