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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