Air Canada flight attendant strike grounded
Posted Oct 13, 2011 7:26 am.
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You won’t be grounded if you’re booked to fly on Air Canada Thursday, since it’s against the law for the airline’s almost 7,000 flight attendants to strike.
The Harper government has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to review the dispute.
At Pearson Airport in Toronto, a flight attendant told CityNews she feels ripped off.
“They don’t want people disrupted and we don’t want our lives disrupted. We want to work, I have a Paris (flight) on the weekend, but I want my fair rights,” she said.
CUPE represents the flight attendants and is condemning what it’s calling “the federal government’s unwarranted attack on the collective bargaining rights” of the flight attendants.
This is happening after Ottawa sent the matter to the Canada Industrial Relations Board for review — making it illegal for a strike or a lockout.
The flight attendants are fighting back. There’s a rally planned for noon outside labour minister Lisa Raitt’s office in Milton, Ont.
CUPE’s national president Paul Moist calls Ottawa’s intervention outrageous and suggests this is an outright attack on the rights of every worker in Canada.
