“Unpaid work is over”: Canadian flight attendants reach tentative agreement with airline.

Air Canada flight attendants win ground pay after four-day strike after workers condemn government’s back-to-work order as violation of their rights.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/20/unpaid-work-is-over-canadian-flight-attendants-reach-tentative-agreement-with-airline/

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Air Canada, union reach deal, forcing travelers to fly Air Canada again

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/08/air-canada-union-reach-deal-forcing-travelers-to-fly-air-canada-again/
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Air Canada et leur syndicat ont une entente, obligeant les voyageurs à voler avec Air Canada à nouveau

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Air Canada, union reach deal, forcing travelers to fly Air Canada again

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/08/air-canada-union-reach-deal-forcing-travelers-to-fly-air-canada-again/
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Air Canada et leur syndicat ont une entente, obligeant les voyageurs à voler avec Air Canada à nouveau

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#Canada#AirCanada#Satire

CUPE sues government to block 'unconstitutional' power used to end flight attendant strike; The union accused Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu of undermining the flight attendants’ constitutional right to strike.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/cupe-sues-government-to-block-unconstitutional-power-used-to-end-flight-attendant-strike

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As someone with a forthcoming #AirCanada flight, I get why the government is so keen to get things moving again ASAP.

But the way to do that is by putting pressure on the company to meet worker demands NOT by forcing workers to concede to executive demands.

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As someone with a forthcoming #AirCanada flight, I get why the government is so keen to get things moving again ASAP.

But the way to do that is by putting pressure on the company to meet worker demands NOT by forcing workers to concede to executive demands.

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Air Canada's striking flight attendants on Sunday refused a government-backed labor board's order to return to work, forcing the airline to delay restarting its operations and leaving its passengers in limbo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/18/companies/strike-air-canada-back-to-work-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #aircanada #unions #canada #airlines

@thejapantimes reminder that #AirCanada could have end this in last December, they refuse. When the union give their 72h before strike notice, #AirCanada choose to quit the negotiations table and ghost union negotiator that was trying to find a way to end the operations in a orderly fashion. #AirCanada choose this clusterfuck. #AirCanadaStrike#UnpaidWorkersWontFly

Air Canada's striking flight attendants on Sunday refused a government-backed labor board's order to return to work, forcing the airline to delay restarting its operations and leaving its passengers in limbo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/18/companies/strike-air-canada-back-to-work-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #aircanada #unions #canada #airlines

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Unpaid labour you are required to give your employer to keep your position is straight up exploitation. It’s very simple and should not be allowed under any circumstances. If a business or industry claims it just can’t make ends meet without exploiting its workers, then our answer should be the same as when southern plantation owners made the same ‘economic’ argument.

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In an almost unthinkable display of conflict-of-interest, a former Air Canada legal counsel, Maryse Tremblay, will rule on whether to end job action by striking Air Canada flight attendants at the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/cupe-former-air-canada-counsel-to-decide-whether-to-end-cupe-air-canada-dispute-in-clear-conflict-of-interest

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Full-time junior Air Canada flight attendants currently earn $1,952 a month before taxes. That’s slightly over $12/hr. Meanwhile, Air Canada did $22 billion in revenue & $3.6 billion in EBITDA last year.

And people seriously want to blame stranded passengers on flight attendants who don’t want to work for free?

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/air-canada-cancellations-flight-attendant-strike-looms/story?id=124672386

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The right to strike is meaningless if the government orders binding arbitration and back to work every time a strike becomes ‘disruptive’ … disruption is the point of a strike - it’s how labour action works - not allowing it undermines workers.

As a result of this readiness to jump to intervention, government is encouraging CEOs to push workers toward strikes rather than negotiating in good faith.

#CdnPoli#ABPoli#AirCanada#Strike

The right to strike is meaningless if the government orders binding arbitration and back to work every time a strike becomes ‘disruptive’ … disruption is the point of a strike - it’s how labour action works - not allowing it undermines workers.

As a result of this readiness to jump to intervention, government is encouraging CEOs to push workers toward strikes rather than negotiating in good faith.

#CdnPoli#ABPoli#AirCanada#Strike