Tag Archives: Workers' Rights

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 […]

A Matter of Choice

“I am an adult. I get to choose.”  I found that quote when looking through my notes, trying to decide what I would write about today. I don’t remember everything about the conversation. I do remember the context. The speaker was a woman, a political refugee from a Middle Eastern country. Her crime was advocating […]