Sky Café kitchen staff in Toronto latest airport group to join IAM

Join drivers who joined earlier this year

Employees at Sky Café joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) April 27.

IAM organized 35 drivers at the same company in February.

“Two voting polls were held — one in the morning and one in the evening — and I’m pleased to announce that 75 per cent of the eligible voters chose the IAM,” said Sam Jabbar, IAM organizer. “Sky Café offered them a $2 an hour raise and promised they would get to pick their own schedules if they voted the union out.”

The 38 kitchen staff members prepare meals for a variety of airlines at Toronto’s Pearson Airport; the drivers deliver those meals to the aircraft.

The IAM is the largest union at Pearson International and the largest in the Canadian air transport sector.

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