What You Need to Know About Air Canada’s Flight Attendants’ Strike
About this episode
The episode discusses the recent strike by Air Canada's flight attendants and the government's intervention.
Send us a note! One of the top news stories in Canada this week was the tense stand-off between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants. The Air Canada flight attendants' strike saw planes grounded across Canada as flight attendants demanded better pay, including an end to unpaid ground work. Then Mark Carney's government intervened and invoked a controversial section of the labour code to order flight attendants back-to-work, leading the flight attendants to announce they would be defyin...
Topics covered
- Air Canada
- flight attendants
- strike
- labour code
- pay
- unpaid work
Keywords
- Air Canada
- flight attendants
- strike
- Mark Carney
- labour code
- pay
- unpaid work
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Air Canada
Places: Canada
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