Airport screening officers at Pearson International Airport will vote this week on a tentative agreement reached late Friday night that averted a strike at the facility that had been set for the weekend. According to the news outlets, the deal would give Canadian Airport Workers Union (CAWU) a 24 percent pay raise over the next three years.

The strike by more than 2,800 Pearson airport screening officers threatened to severely disrupt travellers in Toronto, with close to 130,000 people having been expected on Saturday.

Bargaining with Garda World Security Corp, a private company contracted by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), had begun May 31 and earlier this month 99% of union members had voted to strike.

A work-to-rule protest by Garda World’s security screening officers at Pearson in 2011 led to cancelled flights and five-hour line-ups at customs.