Air Canada union rejects deal, set to strike

[UrbScotty]

Source: CBC

Air Canada's flight attendants have rejected a tentative deal reached between their union and the airline and are poised to go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees, representing 6,800 flight attendants at the carrier, said 65 per cent of members who cast ballots voted to reject the deal, but didn't say how many voted.

It's the second time flight attendants have turned down a tentative agreement with the airline. They voted 87 per cent against ratifying the previous effort, in August.

"We ask the federal government, in the strongest possible terms, to respect our right to collective bargaining and not intervene unilaterally in this dispute,” Jeff Taylor, president of CUPE's branch for Air Canada flight attendants, said in a statement Sunday night.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/09/air-canada-strike-looms.html

[DemoTex]

1. As an airline captain and union member, I say ..

GO FOR IT!

[licanes]

2. Strikes everywhere

Its such a sad event that we hear on the news lately. Strikes here and there, actually it is not uncommon since a lot of other countries experience the same thing with airline companies. It only shows how workers are really very expressive nowadays and they really voice out what they feel and they demand for certain rights that they feel they deserve. Problems like this are always actually a two-sided thing and we should always be ale to try to work it out in the most peaceful way where less people would get disrupted as well.

[SoapBox]

3. Here's hoping that they don't have some Activist Judges that will stop a strike.

...if it was here, the FIVE Activists would stomp on the 99% to help the 1%.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. Unfortunately....

P.M. Harper has a majority government in the house, and no opposition in the corporate-crony senate. Guaranteed, he will take 10 minutes out, from ramming through his draconian crime bill to ram through back-to-work legislation. The gutless media will not report on any opposition.

It won't go before judges, because its been done before. And unfortunately, (I think) Harper will be appointing 2 supreme court justices at some time in the near future anyway. S.C. judges don't have to go through a confirmation hearing like in the U.S. This ain't the same Canada anymore, that the world used to like.

[Posteritatis]

5. Harper will legislate them back to work the day they walk, most likely. (nt)