Air Canada Flugbegleiter von Labour Board für illegal erklärt
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-air-canada-flight-attendants-strike-declared-illegal-by-labour-board/
Air Canada Flugbegleiter von Labour Board für illegal erklärt
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-air-canada-flight-attendants-strike-declared-illegal-by-labour-board/
13 Kommentare
Well, here we go. I am hopeful this will be a defining moment for Canadian labour. I hope to see all unions support CUPE in this fight, as we saw when Ford tried to strongarm the teachers. The blatant abuse of Section 107 and curtailing of any strike with leverage needs to be stopped.
I’ll be writing to my union urging them to support the flight attendants.
EDIT: Feds should speak to labour the same way they speak to indigenous peoples – as an equal partner in this system. Their right to be involved in the process comes from different roots, but deserve similar respect and consideration. This is not to discount the unique circumstances of indigenous folks and their own legal justifications! Both must be respected and truly listened to, not having their rights trampled over.
This was pretty obviously going to happen. You can’t launch an illegal strike and then be surprised when it is declared illegal
I can’t help but feel the Air Canada employees are being shafted here.
A salary equivalent to a McDonalds manager for a job where you’re constantly away from home? And they can’t strike to improve their conditions? That’s sum bullshit, alright.
„Illegal strike“ has the same vibe as „permitted protest.“ These aren’t actions meant to play nice with the rigged system as-is, they’re supposed to challenge them. Labour board can and should get stuffed.
Given the supposedly neutral person who ordered them back to work had a clear conflict of interest and should have recused themselves, I’m not sure it’ll actually be deemed illegal when all the court cases resolve.
Illegitimate labour board declares more illegitimate actions.
Lose the bias and actually make a decision for once without being directed by the labour minister for once. You’re supposed to be independent, not have the minister override the board.
To be honest, this has to happen.
Its been 3-4 work conflicts that the Government pretty much comes in and forces the workers back to work. What the point to negotiate in good faith as an employer if you know your employees cant strike??
Private companies cant just expect the government to just save them every time….
To me, this is the impetus for a general strike.
Maybe it seems dramatic, or an overreaction, but if they can force *these* private sector employees back to work, they can force *you* back to work. This is a very big, blatant step towards the broad erosion of workers rights in this country.
Democracy does not just mean political rights such as voting, judicial processes, and speech. Democracy means you get a say in where you work, under what conditions, and the freedom to negotiate your wage. This action is saying that those rights are conditional upon approval from a corporation, and if they do not approve, the state will step in on *their* behalf. The government won’t protect us from abuses by corporations, but they will stop us from asking for more fairness in our jobs.
Busting this strike (or any, but especially this one) is an anti-democratic move by the government that explicitly signals support for the profits of corporations over *the people of this country*.
I guess „nation-building“ just means building the wealth of corporations, rather than building a free and fair society.
Fuck air Canada and the Canadian government in this case. Businesses need to learn they can’t go crying to the feds every time. Put on your big boy pants, and gasp! Maybe the executives don’t get a bonus this year.
Maybe I will live long enough to one day see a Canadian government that isn’t pure evil. But it’s not very likely.
The Liberal’s mistake was being aggressive so early. All this did was piss off the left and labour movement. If you waited 2 weeks, maybe even a month, not as many people would be upset about the back to work order. You’ll have a sigh of relief from the public, and union would be exhausted from the striking.
Now, you have an upset public, the union is striking anyways, and it sets a precedent for unions to just disobey back to work orders in the future. It would be a mistake to double down at this point, because now you’ll be known as a union busting government, which you don’t want.
It will be very difficult to recover from that reputation in future elections, as unions and the left won’t trust you for at least a generation. You can squash the union if you want, and teach them a lesson that won’t make them disobey future work orders. But I guarantee doing that would be a bigger political mistake. DON’T.
Let it play out at this point. Figure out how to fix your previous stance in the meantime.
Of course, it was declared illegal
The government does not work for its people. It works for big business only while stealing from its people.only some parties like to steal more than the other.
Every single time the government steps in to end strikes, they’re kicking the can down the road. Flight attendants will just strike again because their issues weren’t resolved and what about the other workers who were legislated back to work too?
At best we’re going to have eventual constant strikes from multiple industries, or it’s going to form into something much larger and organized. Social discontent is not something the government should be fostering but they’re taking every step towards that.