Am I the only one who wonders how many years the F.A have been "working" hours without being paid? Where has fucking CUPE been all that time to accept that?
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I talked to flight attendants, inflation made the unpaid work more unbearable than it had been in the past, this was a breaking point. They didn't want to push this to an (illegal) strike before. If workers won't strike, things like that don't change.
aug 19, 2025, 8:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I can understand that. Many sales professionals and executives perform unpaid work ... late nite emails, zoom calls, etc. I myself experienced that for many years b4 retiring. But ... and this is the point ... they are unionized, so why or how does that happen? CUPE bears some responsibility.
aug 19, 2025, 8:38 pm • 1 0 • view
It happens because workers didn't strike to change it until now. CUPE did take responsibility, they backed the strike. CUPE can't just say some magic words and Air Canada would have stopped, as though the union HQ has the power to change it but didn't. That's not how things work.
aug 20, 2025, 6:13 am • 1 0 • view
Situation is a lot more complex than just Air Canada. Until recently their biggest competitor didn’t have union representation. Pretty hard to fight for something when you have zero support.
aug 19, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view