Denis Lebel’s formal salute to union workers involves another finger. When Air Canada passed off its maintenance jobs to Aveos in 2011, there was a significant outcry about the move.…
With the federal Conservatives trying to destroy unions and bully working men and women, the BC Liberals are following suit with teachers. Unlike Air Canada employees, BC’s teachers are not…
I’m beginning to think this might be a pattern. Same company, same rhetoric, same lies. They’re all in favour of letting workers try to defend their livelihoods at the bargaining…
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting continues to raise the alarm over threats to our nation’s public broadcaster and well they should. While Heritage Minister James Moore promised in May to maintain…
Air Canada was happy. The union was not. But then, this is Lisa Raitt's shop, we could have predicted that, right? So here is my understanding - as an outsider…
When I first saw reference to this on Twitter I thought maybe it was some sort of hyperbole. Or that some progressive soul, like myself, prone to Swiftian rhetoric, had…
The General Assembly (GA) of Occupy Ottawa last night resolved to join Air Canada flight attendants’ rally on Parliament Hill at 12:00 noon on Friday, Friday, October 21, 2011. Occupy…
… if I couldn’t imagine it actually happening… Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
I write this from Arizona, where I've been attending a work conference this week in the Phoenix area. I'm staying through the weekend to see some hockey, as the Coyotes…
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy is on board for an Occupy Canada movement:To my friends adopting a wait-and-see approach, I say: The least they can expect from…
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/air-canada-passengerlist/?cmp=rss
It would be funny if I didn't think that the livelihoods of 6,000 or so people hung in the balance. But Air Canada has charged the union with bad faith…
Journalism can be so maddeningly vague at times. This business of the federal labour relations board "reviewing" the negotiations at Air Canada and therefore rendering any strike illegal is just…
Yeah, I know, cheesy title. Save it. Lisa Raitt’s a aging tart, I can’t do anything to change that. Something about her will perhaps turn me into a female center-left…
Wow. This does not happen a lot. Air Canada flight attendants - CUPE members - have voted down not one but two tentative agreements that the union's leadership was recommending.
Yep, Dear Lisa is busy sharpening her claws and no doubt finding ‘sexy’ ways to stamp on workers, yet again, boys ‘n’ girls, and this time, it’s Air Canada Flight…
It's Air Canada again. This time it's the 6,800 flight attendants who have voted down an offer from the airline and will be in a legal strike position on Thursday.It…
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger in Winnipeg in June. The icon to his left indicates women voters, who were obviously paying attention. Leastways, the people have spoken and he is still…
I don't know what's in the deal reached today between CUPE's Air Canada Component and the company. I'm guessing, since Lisa Raitt said the union would not be allowed to…
The Federal Court decision in Thibodeau v Air Canada is here. But you can get a sense of the outcome via just about any major national media outlet this afternoon.As…
