Tag Archives: Collective Bargaining

The Other Guy Blinked

On Monday, Air Canada flight attendants went on strike. The airline canceled flights, disrupting hundreds of thousands of Canadians. After months of negotiations. there was an impasse between management and workers. No talks were scheduled. Within hours, the government ordered the strikers back to work. The argument was that the strike would be bad for […]

Is This Fair?

Air Canada’s10,000 flight attendants went on strike Saturday morning, bringing the airline’s operations of a halt. By early afternoon the federal government had stepped in, ordering the strikers back to work and imposing binding arbitration. So much for collective bargaining and the right to strike. The central issue in the dispute is pay for unpaid […]