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    2. anull_beads on

      The right decision to make.

      Air Canada has always been bailed out by the government and their own employees, multiple times.

      Either deem them essential and nationalize the service (if you are forcing them into arbitration at every opportunity, it is clear there is no reasonable negotiating going on) or pay them the hours they are working for. No more percentages being thrown out, just pay the damn workers.

    3. UncomfortableReplies on

      Good for the attendants.
      Their salaries are disgustingly low and their working conditions are miserable and unhealthy. 
      They were on strike for 12 hours. There have been blizzards that grounded flights longer than they were allowed to strike.
      There’s no point to a protest if it doesn’t cause disruption.

    5. Comfortable_Shoe358 on

      I feel for the passengers that will be crazy disrupted by this, but ultimately it’s the right move to make and I support the workers. Corporations for too long have been profiting off consumer’s inability to accept very temporary inconveniences and expenses and look what it’s done to our society. It’s time to stand up. 

    6. Hour_Rest7773 on

      Fire them and replace them with some other uneducated people that would be glad to glhave such a good paying cushy job with no skill or education needed

    7. okbuddybaldur on

      Air Canada workers are striking for fair wages, but the people pulling the strings refuse to listen. These are the wolves feeding off Canadian labor:

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      Executive Leadership

      • Michael Rousseau – President & CEO, based in Montreal. Pocketed over $12 million in 2022, a massive raise while workers were denied fair increases.

      • Craig Landry – Chief Operating Officer. Focuses on cutting operational costs while ignoring workers’ demands.

      • John di Bert – Chief Financial Officer. Ensures shareholder profits come before employees’ paychecks.

      • Arielle Meloul-Wechsler – EVP, Chief Human Resources & Public Affairs. Supposed to represent employees, but stands on the corporate side in labor disputes.

      • Marc Barbeau – EVP, Chief Legal Officer. Manages legal strategy to protect Air Canada from its own workforce.

      ⸻

      Board of Directors

      These are the gatekeepers who approve strategy, executive pay, and labor policy:

      • Vagn Ove Sørensen – Chair of the Board. Danish businessman, not tied to Canadian workers’ realities.

      • Kathleen Taylor – Former Four Seasons Hotels CEO.

      • Annette Verschuren – Former President of Home Depot Canada.

      • Christie Clark – Finance executive.

      • Mike Wilson – Mining executive.

      • Madeleine Paquin – CEO of Logistec Corporation.

      • Robert Fyfe – Former CEO of Air New Zealand, not Canadian.

      • Jean Huot – Finance and technology executive.

      • Michael Green – New Zealand business executive.

      These directors are elites from business, finance, mining, and hospitality. They are far removed from the day-to-day struggles of flight attendants, ground staff, and pilots.

      ⸻

      Institutional Investors

      The real pressure behind Air Canada’s decisions comes from global financial giants who demand profits above all else:

      • RBC Global Asset Management (Canada)
      • The Vanguard Group (USA)
      • FMR LLC / Fidelity (USA)
      • BlackRock (USA)
      • Dimensional Fund Advisors (USA)
      • Lazard Asset Management (USA/France)
      • BMO Asset Management (Canada)
      • Norges Bank Investment Management
      • CI Global Asset Management (Canada)

      These institutions hold major shares in Air Canada and pressure management to cut costs, squeeze workers, and maximize dividends.

      ⸻

      The Big Picture

      Air Canada is branded as a Canadian airline, but look who controls it: global investors, foreign board members, and Canadian elites whose loyalty lies with profit, not people.

      Workers keep this airline alive. Executives and shareholders extract the wealth. That’s why Air Canada employees are on strike — and why the public should see clearly who the wolves of man really are.

    8. Ok_Cry7572 on

      From AC website:

      Half of Air Canada mainline flight attendants earned more than $54,000 in 2024, excluding incentive rewards, and health and pension benefits. The median is influenced by the fact that about one third of flights attendants have been hired in the past 5 years. At the top of the scale, which they reach within 10 years, flight attendants can make more than $70,000

      Every month, cabin crew at Air Canada are guaranteed a minimum pay ranging between 65 and 80 credit hours whether they work these hours or not.

      With respect to time spent onboarding and similar tasks performed on the ground, these are captured within the Formula pay defined by the collective agreement, which covers the Duty Period (Commencing one hour prior to flight departure / ending 15 minutes after flight arrival). If the employee is requested to be on duty outside of these times or to perform service to passengers on the ground, the collective agreement provides for additional compensation.

    9. ddsordmd on

      Fuck the feds. Maybe they can force AC to raise wages instead of trying to squabble the whole thing.

    10. thenord321 on

      Air travel is optional, we need air transport of goods for the economy, but that doesn’t require flight attendants.

      Air canada should face the economic losses of Air travel for at least a week before the government interferes. Air Canada often has strikes and abuses government intervention to their benefit in strike management.

    11. EberleScores on

      Canadian here, came to say that we all support this plan. Dont let them push you around!

    12. Ok_Cry7572 on

      Air Canada did make an offer like 3 days ago to Union but seems like Union didn’t accept.

      Air Canada Provides Clarity on its Offer to CUPE

      MONTREAL, August 14, 2025 – Air Canada today clarified commentary that has been made publicly about its offer to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) representing 10,000 flight attendants at the airline. Under the proposal, which seeks no concessions, there is a 38 per cent increase in total compensation over four years and:

      A new provision for ground pay that is industry leading in Canada.

      Hourly rates would go as high as $94 an hour in the first year.

      Hourly pay would increase by 12-to-16 per cent in the first year. This consists of a combined eight per cent increase in the hourly wage plus another four-to-eight per cent increase through a new ground pay formula in the first year alone.

      By 2027, senior flight attendants would earn $87,000 annually on average, and 20 per cent of flight attendants would earn $90,000 or more a year.

      There would be significant improvements to health benefits and pension plans, including the legacy Defined Benefit pension plan. Air Canada is the only airline in the country to offer its flight attendants access to a pension that includes a defined benefit component.

      Meaningful quality of life improvements, including an increase to paid vacation, and measures to address union concerns about rest and work-life balance. This includes changes to crew complement on aircraft to reduce inflight workloads.

      It will make Air Canada Flight Attendants the best compensated in Canada.

    13. GLG777 on

      Ironically us passengers will pay for any pay increases anyways so let’s just get this over with 

    16. ThebuMungmeiser on

      Good.

      I don’t understand why anyone in any sector listens when the government mandates them back to work.

      The right call is always to stay together and refuse. They’re mandating you back because they NEED you. That’s YOUR card to play in the negotiation, not theirs.

      It applies to every important sector. Postal, teachers, nurses, etc.

    18. KF7SPECIAL on

      Good. Canadian governments have done nothing but shit all over the working class for the past decade++, whether it’s through citing fake „labour shortages“ as the reason to suppress wages by injecting the economy with hundreds of thousands of low-wage labourers, or by repeatedly stifling any strike of late. There is zero voice for the working class at this point.

      It doesn’t help that we suffer from severe crab mentality as a people as well, where so many people will root against anyone fighting for improved working conditions if it doesn’t impact them directly. As if our cost of living doesn’t continue to skyrocket making it all the more necessary to collectively fight for better working conditions and wages.

    19. Ecstatic-Coach on

      Funny how when corporate wants arbitration Carney grants it immediately; but when union wants arbitration (Canada Post) he won’t grant it

    20. Volderon90 on

      Carney government first major fuck up. 4 months in. 

      12 hours. Not even a full day of strike. They had the back to work legislation ready to go. Despicable. Air Canada didn’t even bother to negotiate because they knew they’d order them back 

    21. oofcookies on

      In Canadian law, what will happen if the union goes through with defying the forced arbitration order? I doubt it’ll be sending their equivalent of the national guard to strike bust but I don’t see the government taking this laying down

    22. JonnyLew on

      Just chillin, watching the Liberal party outconservative the conservative party.

      Who believes in unions? Not the Liberal conservative party of Canada. Who believes in affordable housing? Not the Lib-Cons. How about rising wages? Nope! Not the Lib-Cons.

      I voted CPC this election for the first time ever and when the next one comes (probably within the year) I will happily vote CPC again. I will vote CPC again and again until the so called progressive parties we have actually start being progressive. Until then I will not reward them with my support but people need to do what they think is right.

    24. PigeonsOnYourBalcony on

      Flight attendants are getting fleeced with their pay, the fact that they aren’t paid every minute they’re on the clock is absolute robbery.

      The members of government who are standing by Air Canada and who wanted to end this strike immediately should be ashamed of themselves. I wish Canada didn’t keep voting for the same two parties that have firm track records and union busting.

    25. Loki-L on

      I was shocked to learn that apparently flight attendants at many airlines only get paid for the time they are actually in the air, not all the stuff they do while a plane is still on the ground.

      Given how many passanger freakout videos are on the net, it seems weird that the people having to deal with those often don’t even get paid for that part, because the plane hadn’t left the ground yet.

      I am a firm believer in people getting paid for the time they actually are on the job and the only argument that airlines seem to have against it appear to be that it would cost them money.

    27. AlwaysHigh27 on

      Absolutely the right decision. Our government should have never ever stepped in. I voted for Carney and I absolutely do not approve. 

    28. tmhoc on

      Thank you! I’m so done with government telling unions what to do. Unions are not government employees, air Canada definitely gets government money a lot.

      Consequences for thee but not for me

    29. XxNiftyxX on

      They laid off my father from maintenance 10+ years ago so they could outsource the labour to cut costs. They had laws specifically preventing this from happening, has my father received any of his severance pay? Nope. Good luck workers but you’re likely to get replaced too. Sad company shouldn’t bear the Canadian name because it sure doesn’t hold up any Canadian standards.

    30. rentalfloss on

      I am getting tired of the ordering unions back to work. I have never been a union employee. The power of union is in the collective. Ordering the collective back to work defeats the purpose of the union.

    33. thismadhatter on

      All designed to drain their strike fund from fines. Air Canada is going to go tits up, and that’s going to present a bargaining chip for trade talks with the U.S to bring in American companies to take over.

      Maybe the answer to the Canadian Monopolies is to let them implode via unions being unions and bring more American companies in.

      The complaining will be shortlived once costs go down.

      Do Rogers and Bell next.

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