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Lawyers for the union representing Airport Brand taxi cab drivers, will appear in an Ottawa court room Tuesday afternoon to challenge parts of an Aug. 14 injunction that limits the protesting activities of drivers on airport property.
The cab drivers, who have been locked in nasty labour dispute since early August, have been picketing the airport, slowing traffic along the Airport Parkway and protesting in hopes of overturning a new contract between the Ottawa Airport Authority and the cabbies dispatcher Coventry Connections, which has removed their exclusive right to pick up at the airport and increased the fees required in order to service the airport.
“On August 14th, Justice Beaudoin granted the Ottawa International Airport Authority an injunction that limited the size and scope of the ongoing protests by striking taxi drivers,”reads a statement from the Airport Authority. “It also prohibited certain forms of noise-making that was negatively impacting airport operations, passengers, visitors and employees. Today, Unifor, the union that represents the striking drivers is returning to the courts for two purposes; to have the trespass notices issued against several of its members including local union leadership lifted, and to be able to resume excessive noise-making activities.”
Cab drivers had used steel drums, symbols, car horns and other noise making apparatus while marking in front of the arrivals terminal at the airport early in its demonstration. The noise has stopped, thanks to the injunction.
The union believes it has a right to protest in front of the airport and that it’s right to protest includes the right to make noise. A judge will hear the union’s arguments Tuesday afternoon.
More to come.
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The cab drivers, who have been locked in nasty labour dispute since early August, have been picketing the airport, slowing traffic along the Airport Parkway and protesting in hopes of overturning a new contract between the Ottawa Airport Authority and the cabbies dispatcher Coventry Connections, which has removed their exclusive right to pick up at the airport and increased the fees required in order to service the airport.
“On August 14th, Justice Beaudoin granted the Ottawa International Airport Authority an injunction that limited the size and scope of the ongoing protests by striking taxi drivers,”reads a statement from the Airport Authority. “It also prohibited certain forms of noise-making that was negatively impacting airport operations, passengers, visitors and employees. Today, Unifor, the union that represents the striking drivers is returning to the courts for two purposes; to have the trespass notices issued against several of its members including local union leadership lifted, and to be able to resume excessive noise-making activities.”
Cab drivers had used steel drums, symbols, car horns and other noise making apparatus while marking in front of the arrivals terminal at the airport early in its demonstration. The noise has stopped, thanks to the injunction.
The union believes it has a right to protest in front of the airport and that it’s right to protest includes the right to make noise. A judge will hear the union’s arguments Tuesday afternoon.
More to come.
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