Twenty-seven screening officers and nine salaried employees at the airport were terminated following an investigation into “screening irregularities”
The union representing 27 Victoria International Airport security screeners who were fired last week says the Crown corporation responsible for passenger and baggage screening interfered in the employer’s decision to return the employees to work after an investigation.
The 36 workers had been removed from the workplace in early January pending the investigation, said Tania Canniff, general chairperson for the union’s District Lodge 140. The union said it wouldn’t normally communicate with all of its members about the termination of personnel, but “the circumstances of these events compel this communication.”
“Twenty-seven families have lost their ability to earn a living without an appeal, and that is shameful. We need the transport minister’s office to intervene,” Canniff said. The investigation identified “multiple instances of incomplete screening at a non-passenger checkpoint” by employees of Allied Universal, Perseo said.
Perseo did not answer a question about under what circumstances Allied Universal could have billed for the services going forward after the investigation.Canniff said CATSA did not conduct its own investigation, but directed Allied Universal to investigate.
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