W0X0F
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- Jun 6, 2005
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thanks, guys. bit of a sh!tstorm up here north of the border. some highlights- over the past year we've had our horns locked with the corp and govt over a couple of little things like the stripping of our pensions as well as the company's proposed LCC with no guarantee that AC pilots (or canadian pilots at all for that matter) would fill the seats *ahem*jetstar*ahem*.
we voted down our first TA (loose language, inappropriately concessionary) because our own negots committee were colluding with the company behind the scenes and the committee was summarily fired/recalled. couple of months down the road, the corp filed motions with the govt laying the path towards forced binding arbitration.
in recent disputes the govt has set precedents with AC stating that we are "too vital to the economy" to allow any union to shut down the company (FAs/rampies were legislated to keep working before they could strike)... meanwhile, the govt will not consider us an essential service. as a result, when contracts come due the company's negotiating stance is essentially "take it since we both know you won't be able to strike anyway".
we were locked out by our company and legislated back to work by the government who passed the bill before our union even had the chance to announce any strike action. the bill included forcing us into binding final offer arbitration and suprise, suprise, the govt appointed arbitrator ended up going in favor of the corp and handed us our new forced working conditions (which largely mirrors the conditions outlined in the failed TA which was negotiated by the negots committee that we had since fired/recalled). the new contract also includes the selling off of our embraer fleet outright and the downgauging of 767/airbus fins directly to the LCC without any details of how it is supposed to happen.
i'm sure all of this sounds familiar to all of you south of the border. we'll just file this latest EVP/COO appointment jointly under "death by a thousand cuts" and BOHICA.
we voted down our first TA (loose language, inappropriately concessionary) because our own negots committee were colluding with the company behind the scenes and the committee was summarily fired/recalled. couple of months down the road, the corp filed motions with the govt laying the path towards forced binding arbitration.
in recent disputes the govt has set precedents with AC stating that we are "too vital to the economy" to allow any union to shut down the company (FAs/rampies were legislated to keep working before they could strike)... meanwhile, the govt will not consider us an essential service. as a result, when contracts come due the company's negotiating stance is essentially "take it since we both know you won't be able to strike anyway".
we were locked out by our company and legislated back to work by the government who passed the bill before our union even had the chance to announce any strike action. the bill included forcing us into binding final offer arbitration and suprise, suprise, the govt appointed arbitrator ended up going in favor of the corp and handed us our new forced working conditions (which largely mirrors the conditions outlined in the failed TA which was negotiated by the negots committee that we had since fired/recalled). the new contract also includes the selling off of our embraer fleet outright and the downgauging of 767/airbus fins directly to the LCC without any details of how it is supposed to happen.
i'm sure all of this sounds familiar to all of you south of the border. we'll just file this latest EVP/COO appointment jointly under "death by a thousand cuts" and BOHICA.
