The Truth About The Garda Screeners' Dispute At Pearson Airport

While the mainstream media has uniformly reported that the job action delaying so many passengers recently at Pearson International is over scheduling conflicts, to my knowledge only one source has actually reported the nature of that conflict.

The Toronto Star's Thomas Walkom yesterday reported the following:

A few months ago [Garda, the screeners' employer] tried to cut costs by replacing better-paid full-time workers with part-timers.

Garda now wants its workers to bid against each in order to keep down the wage differentials it pays those who do the worst shifts.

Shift-bidding, as it is called, strikes directly at the heart of unions. It allows the employer to pit one worker against another in a search for the most desperate.

So in other words, to increase its profits, Garda, in an apparent violation of the collective agreement it has with its workers, is trying to get those workers to offer their security services cheaper than their fellow workers.

Why has the MSM withheld this information from the public?

Do we really want to entrust our flying security to a company that shows such contempt for its employees?