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.”
I don’t understand why the government can’t force the airline to give more money, even if it’s temporary.
Why is it that when push comes to shove, they target workers and not capitalists.
Last I checked air Canada was making good money
The government can easily pass a law ending the unpaid work.
That would dramatically change things.
Lol that ain’t happening.
If laws were enacted to protect the workers that means all the unions would go away and the dues and fees money would go back into the workers pocket. This would even help all of the non-union workers, and there are many more of those. Voters of the world, unite!
Strong disagree, unions are beneficial even in places with strong worker protections. How else do those workers make sure those strong protections remain in place?
By passing laws. I’m not against unions but they only protect their members (mostly). Other workers need protecting as well, not just the ones who can afford to pay for it. Passing laws to protect workers protects everyone. Because those laws have not been passed it makes me think that the status quo is more beneficial for the big time moneymakers and power brokers, not the citizenry. When I speak of unions I mean the big business ones of today not and idea of collective brotherhood that will change the world.
One does not prevent the other, in fact unions lobbying for worker protection laws is the best way for workers to get access to lawmakers
Some unions have become too big and are corrupt. Unions are big business after all. Some unions do their best to help their workers. I want laws to provide for everyone though, especially the non-union workers. Information and an unbalance that finally tips the scales will get the voters to act eventually (or if the compost totally hits the cuisinart then…revolution). Lobbying seems corrupt and tends to serve only the squeaky wheels (or lucrative deals), but then again so does taking protection money from a working stiff.
Air Canada must really be hurting for money. In June this year, they only had $500 million available for a stock buyback.
The government has had to bail out Air Canada several times so far, they don’t want to do it again and they have friends who get more money the less air canada pays.
The government would also get more money, through taxes on both corporate and individual earners, if they mandated the company to pay fair wages.
The only one that gets more money from ordering the strikers back to work is whoever gets to pocket the corpo bribe.
Yes, the ones in government and their friends.
Because of the word capitalism. Workers are not respected because we are nothing to them.
Corporations have a legal duty to maximize profits for shareholders in capitalism. This is why money is more important than people.
Maybe one day we will wake up and become our own masters.
Until then we suffer as workers and will have fewer and fewer rights as the Empire crumbles.
You know why. The Liberals are capitalists.