Aveos Fleet Performance Inc., earlier known as Air Canada Technical Services, is about to terminate more than 1,000 workers seconded to work at Aveos Fleet Performance in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver.

It will include 195 permanent termination of employment and 815 temporary suspensions. It will take place in the month of April and June. The demand for heavy maintenance of Air Canada's A319 and A320 planes has declined badly which is the sole reason for the layoffs.

There are plenty of machinists who will be off the job for many months this year. About 470 workers will be affected in the month of April and 540 in June. The layoffs will impinge on some 445 workers in Montreal, 345 in Winnipeg and 220 in Vancouver.

If the work as well as demand increases the temporarily laid off workers can resume in July.

Fred Hospes, a union official with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers blamed the airline of dealing in bad faith during the months when efforts could have been made to lessen worker layoffs.