Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one
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Anybody who expected anything else out of this Liberal government is extremely naïve. Just wait until they start rolling over environmentalists and first nations for their industry leaders.
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Unions came to be because of employers mistreating employees. This is exactly that case. The flight attendants will prevail because this is Canada and we treat employees with respect and pay them from the moment they start work. I know Patty Hajdu is just doing her job but I’m not happy here.
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All Air Canada is worried about is making lots of money for senior management.
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Eventually labour conditions were going to get so bad somewhere that unions were going to tell the government to go fuck themselves when the labour board said "nuh uh no strike for you," and we're finally there. Hooray (waves tiny maple leaf flag)
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Actually the Federal labour minister asked her bureaucrats 1) how is this possible & 2) how to shut this down. Here's the question: would there be so much unpaid time if it was an industry dominated by men?
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Appalling, of course.
But can he say it in French yet?
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If you really know AC’s CEO, you would know how unfit he is for that position. But, yet, here we are.
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How dare you... our titans of industry have provided many benefits such as... weaponized incompetence and "begging to be acquired by a rich American"
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At least Canada’s leader isn’t a pedo
#pedopotus
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If this is actually true, the CEO and those closest to him in the Air Canada hierarchy should be fired with no compensation.
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as a canada post worker, yeah. that's how these big corpos really handle strikes. they just said the quiet part out loud is all
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If they give them a raise, & paid them for the time they actually work, it would literally be $2-3 extra per ticket.
With the fluctuation in ticket prices, this is not a big deal with consumers.
Also, Air Canada makes Billions in profits.
I personally detest them, 1 bad experience too many.
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It's amazing that this CEO is paid $12.5m+ for such poor management. No back up plan, no worse case scenario, no common decency to pay others a living wage.
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Did you know that Mark Carney wrote a book called "values", where he reiterates that value is created from the values we hold.
The values we hold is derived from experience.
If there are no consequences to exploitation, then that experience will be reflected in our values.
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No other idea. Yep, that's the modern CEO playbook. We can't possibly give our workers any more money or benefits because we owe our shareholders our souls and ourselves everything material we can get. #greed
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Binding arbitration. Both sides will have to compromise.
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This is why our middle class is so much more vibrant and strong than the US. It boils down to a competent government that supports not destroying Unions
