Air Canada flight attendants said on Sunday they will remain on strike and challenge a return-to-work order they called unconstitutional, defying a government decision to force them back to their duties by 2 p.m. ET (1800 GMT).
Air Canada had said it planned to resume flights on Sunday evening, a day after the Canadian government issued a directive to end a cabin crew strike that caused the suspension of around 700 daily flights, stranding more than 100,000 passengers.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a statement that members would remain on strike and invited Air Canada back to the table to “negotiate a fair deal.”
The most contentious issue has been the union’s demand for compensation for time spent on the ground between flights and when helping passengers board. Attendants are largely paid only when their plane is moving.
Damn right. Work on the clock, or pay them a decent salary that covers all bases. The company using a non-moving plane as some excuse is ludicrous. If you’re losing money for that regularly, then raise the ticket prices to cover costs incurred. They always go after the labor first to save money, which is asinine because it’s the labor that keeps things going.
If an employee is important enough to have to be legislated back to work then they are important enough to be guaranteed a living wage.
This is apparently the case in the whole industry and its ridiculous.
the whole industry
It’s not a criminal conspiracy, it’s a longstanding commonly accepted industry practice, completely different things! /s
Stay strong. If you don’t, you will end up like us southern neighbors.
Yeah, fight harder than we did, and don’t bitch about a flawed candidate because they’re imperfect like we did.
Get fucked Canadian government. This doesn’t involve you…I cant fucking stand when governments think they can legislate a strike and tell people they have to go back to work or else.
If a company wants to end a strike, they can pay their workers a livable wage, with proper vacation and sick pay. Its not that hard.
Nationalize it.
It used be owned by the government. They sold it in 1988.
