Significant raises for health execs while workers get nothing for 3 years. Executives laugh all the way to bank while workers use #FoodBank
WestJet flight attendants’ union initiates contract negotiations with airline https://www.byteseu.com/1385503/ #AirCanada #Canada #ContractTalks #CUPE #FlightAttendants #WestJet
Air Canada flight attendants reject sellout wage deal in massive rebuke to union bureaucracy, Carney government https://www.byteseu.com/1358829/ #AirCanada #Canada #CUPE #FlightAttendants #Strike #TradeUnions
Looking back at my post now in the context of #CUPE #Union members' 99.1% rejection of the initial tentative deal https://rail.chat/@allen/115058199496777008
The news coming in that it was 50% wage for 100% work was totally off-base. Hopefully, more serious negotiations can happen this time, and a more fitting deal will be reached.
The government's 'eyebrow-raising' penchant for breaking up strikes met its match in the woman-dominated workforce .
https://pressprogress.ca/air-canada-flight-attendants-strike-was-perfect-storm/
Watch this! On Friday, #Toronto #CUPE activist, and #Palestine solidarity activist Tynan Liebert was convicted of "being a party to an assault" at a demonstration in front of a fundraising shindig for Canadian Deputy PM Freeland
In this slomo video you can see clearly that the conviction was bullshit.
This has dangerous ramifications for striking workers on picket lines.
From @ricochet_en :
"Ten thousand flight attendants walked off the job at Air Canada, and for a day, the country glimpsed what it looks like when ordinary people defy both their employer and their government. The wildcat strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian".
https://ricochet.media/labour/the-air-canada-flight-attendant-strike-was-illegal-it-was-also-profoundly-canadian/
#cdnpoli #CUPE #AirCanada
This article lays out the sequence of events during the strike that I didn’t learn about in the ‘regular’ media. Canadian Jobs minister Patty Hadju: “I am exercising this authority because it is critical to maintaining and securing industrial peace, protecting Canadians and promoting conditions to resolve the dispute,” “Industrial peace?!”WTF! #capitalism #Labour #Union #unions #CUPE #AirCanada #cdnpoli #carney #UnionBusting #workers #WorkersRights #billionaires #united
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/20/Air-Canada-Strike-Ottawa-Anti-Union-Bias/
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu and the rest of the Carney government are profoundly anti-worker. And where has the NDP been while this has been going on?
“But the use of Section 107 strips unions of their power to reach a fair deal at the table, McGowan said. He said without the threat of a strike, employers have no motivation to bargain in good faith. ’The only power that workers have is to withdraw their labour,’ he said. ’If you take that away from them, the workers have no real leverage.’ He joins the Canada Labour Congress in calling for Prime Minister Mark Carney to cease the use of Section 107 to end strikes and cut it from the labour code when Parliament resumes. ’By giving the minister the unilateral right to break strikes and send workers back to work against their will, the minister and the government are making a mockery of the collective bargaining process,’ McGowan said.”
— Isaac Phan Nay in @thetyee
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/20/Air-Canada-Strike-Ottawa-Anti-Union-Bias/
PM Mark Carney and Minister Hajdu have urgent work to do to ensure flight attendants are paid in FULL for every minute they work, and that section 107 of the Labour Code is abolished so workers are protected from government intervention and their Charter right to collective bargaining is respected. #canada #fediverse #flightattendant #cabincrew #canpoli #cdnpoli #aircanada #westjet #cupe
With the recent #AirCanada - #CUPE dispute, I've been studying Section 107 which allows the minister to direct the labour board "to maintain or secure industrial peace".
Baffling that the minister somehow thought a back to work order would secure "labour peace". Like, the good little workers will just do as their told and return to work.
#cdnpoli
Good for Air Canada flight attendants!
Congratulations to the union for standing strong.
A lesson for everyone. There are more of us.
CEOs need to adjust their attitude.
Air Canada workers denounce government strikebreaking from the picket line: “There is no right to strike in Canada” https://www.byteseu.com/1302494/ #AirCanada #Canada #CUPE #Strike
Air Canada Flight Attendants expose flaw in Canadian labour law, AND teach Canadian government about negotiation.
By refusing and defying the federal illegal back to work order, Flight Attendants have signed a Tentative Agreement with Air Canada.
I hope their lesson in Canadian labour law has taught not just the Carney government but all future Canadian and Provincial governments, workers are tired of you breaking the constitution to harm workers.
Via Prime Minister #MarkCarney @ 1:22pm ET on Aug 19, 2025
I am relieved that Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees have reached a tentative agreement early this morning.
It is my hope that this will ensure flight attendants are compensated fairly at all times, while ending disruption for hundreds of thousands of Canadian families, workers, and visitors to Canada.
Air Canada flight attendant ‘unlawful’ strike exposes major fault lines in Canadian labour law
#Canada #AirCanada #FlightAttendants #Strike #LabourLaw #WorkerRights #LabourRights #CanadianLaw #Labour #WorkersRights #UnionStrong #LabourUnions #CUPE
https://the-14.com/air-canada-flight-attendant-unlawful-strike-exposes-major-fault-lines-in-canadian-labour-law/
(he, him, his) 
