piefed.eeHow an act of defiance by Air Canada's flight attendants was a win for labour rights
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Under the new deal, attendants would receive 50 per cent of their salary for 60 minutes of boarding and cabin secure checks for narrow body planes and 70 minutes for wide body planes.
Still bullshit. 50% salary capped at 60 min? Does AC want half the safety checks done?
How long do they spend getting from their car to the gate, I wonder? That’s also unpaid.
The agreement took about seven hours but followed eight months of bargaining
Labour action makes a difference.
Wow, I didn't hear that's all they agreed to. There must be other benefits CUPE got, because that's what AC was offering BEFORE the strike....
I think that may have just been poorly communicated. The way I heard it explained, it wasn't a cap, but more like a standard allowance. It really sounds like that time will be extended for delays. My contract has a similar provision if I'm expected to start or end my shift away from my usual workplace, I get compensated for a predetermined amount of travel time instead of the actual time, although if I prove a major delay that's out of my control I also get paid for that time.
It's at least 60 minutes, not 60 minutes. It's just bad reporting.
e.g https://youtu.be/pkrANZBUqhY?t=33 [that's at the point]
Stay on strike indef for all I care. Canadians should be the owners anyways, the fuck did we sell it for???
CircaVThe Conservative government sold it off - cause that’s what they do - see also PetroCanada, the 407 highway, the Wheat Board. All sold by Canadian Conservatives to private, foreign owners.
osaerisxeroIf the business is so crucial to Canada and doesn't have a safety carve out already then it should just be nationalized.
public sectors unions have entered the chat
streetfestivalNah, just everyday people sick of profits getting privatized and losses (e.g., Air Canada bailout in 2021) being socialized. Our social systems aren't as broken as many in the UK and US but they can be if we let corporate lobbying continue to steal from this country and its people. I think you've got some reading to do
gonzo-rand19I'm no fan of the public sector unions (especially PSAC), but bailing corporations out only for them to cost the economy millions of dollars per day due to necessary job action ain't it, either. A lot of these employers have let their collective agreements expire, sometimes years ago, because they know they can get the government to force their employees back to work.
If they're that important to the economy and they've proven they can't handle the intricacies of doing business without a government handout to keep them profitable (check and check), they should be nationalized. Pie in the sky for a second: maybe the revenue from a nationalized Air Canada would mean lower federal taxes or something.
If we don't try, this will just happen again.
Government:
this strike is illegal get back to work
Union:
fuck you, lick my entire taint
Government:
Collective bargaining works, people. Solidarity forever.
Now CBC is painting it like it … but they didn’t do it last week when the flight attendant were bullied by the work minister Patty Hadju. They didn’t point it as an act of defiance when Postal Worker and Rail Worker bring the gouv to court for the same thing.
now that they've dragged Air Canada back the the table, CBC has to make it look like they supported them from the beginning.
Exactly. Didn’t want to look like they publish a tonne of puff piece about the poor travellers that didn’t get their flight