Absolutely. Thank you very much for that.
Between 2011 and 2022 in the federal jurisdiction, in terms of the number of labour disputes we had during that period, 40% of the time employers used scabs. When they do that, they feel they don't have to sit down and work out a collective agreement at the bargaining table. This circumvents and prevents them from really doing what needs to be done, which is respecting the workers and bargaining with the workers who have a union in that workplace.
Right now, the case of the CN dispute at Autoport is a perfect example. These workers, by the way, off-load luxury vehicles. This is not exactly something in the national interest that someone gets their Lamborghini very quickly. This is exactly what they do. These are very expensive vehicles, whether it's Porsches or whatever the case may be, and this employer, instead of sitting down and bargaining a fair collective agreement with our members—which, by the way, is also an indication of respect for those workers—chose, on the first day of the dispute, to bring replacement workers in to do that job.
This is going to prolong this dispute. We've already been on a picket line for a month there now. It is demoralizing for workers when they have to experience that. It gives them a sense that the rules don't work for them: I've given up my paycheque to try to put economic pressure on this employer, and they get to counteract by replacing me with people to do my work. Until that is removed, we're not going to have what I would call fully fair and free collective bargaining in this country.
Of course, we have many employers who would never do that. We deal with them every day of the week. We just had auto negotiations, as you all know, last year. We were able to bargain historic collective agreements for our members. That is having a ripple impact on how we lift up other workers throughout this sector, including non-union workers, those at Toyota and Honda who got pay raises because of the work we did at a bargaining table. We had short strikes during that. Not once would those employers consider bringing scabs across the picket line.
So we have some employers who play by the rules, and then these over here who do not.