Originally published at: Air Canada, Flight Attendants Reach Tentative Labor Agreement - AVweb
Slew of canceled flights impacted over half a million passengers.
How stoopid does someone have to be to run Air Canada?
Not paying F/As for work time like safety briefing is not sustainable.
Cost to AC for disruption of operations will be high, directly and in future avoidance by potential customers.
Union went to the wall, risking fines and jail time for executives by violating government order.
(Gummint erred by getting involved - let the marketplace decide, employees will by moving to competition.
Gummint errs in restricting competition by laws on ownership.)
A factor working against motivation to Move On is union seniority rules.
Workers have to start at bottom with new employer.
Employees at top of seniority list get preference for flights to crew
Pacific Western would have changed that substantially, so that flights through mountains in winter weather on up to 10 legs would have very experienced pilots not just newbies.
Existing rules let those senior pilots go to Toronto for ten days flying then have the rest of the month off as they reached their monthly cap of hours.
Union Strong !income inequality was bred when unions did not exit .
Your post is not clear.
It is obvious that unions are not anywhere near perfect.
The best approach is individual freedom supported by justice and defense systems, which lets good businesses prosper and bad fail.
(I demolish the notion of monopolies in ARE MONOPOLIES POSSIBLE?.
AC is propped up by government force - laws restricting ownership.)
Hello Keith ,I respectfully disagree. In an Adam smith universe , the invisible hand would ring true , we have seen over and over again unbridled capitalism is just as destructive to the economy and society in general as pure socialism is. Unions are necessary to curb managements proclivity to maximize profit over all else. As far as I can see Democratic socialism is the way to go. Thank you for your thoughts.
You realize no pay prior to brake release is the international industry standard.
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