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Those wildcat Air Canada strikers are (unintentionally) hurting their cause!

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The ongoing labour troubles at Air Canada took a cruel twist of fate today, a wildcat strike in Toronto, Montreal and other cities forcing the cancellation of several flights.  As the CBC mentions in its report, “With the NDP leadership convention beginning on Friday, many people from across Canada were scheduled to arrive in Toronto.”  Wonder how many voting delegates will be forced to stay home?  I mean, they’ll still have enough attendees to elect a new leader, I hope!?

Of course, in fitting with their pro-labour leanings, the NDP has been vocal supporters of Air Canada employees throughout the dispute.  This was surely unintentional, but a delicious irony, nevertheless.  Mmm, irony…

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COMMENT OF THE DAY: An airline goes on strike, and now we’re the Axis of Evil!?

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From: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Three+Canada+flights+Vancouver+cancelled+baggage+handlers+action/6345558/story.html

If you thought that yesterday’s assertion we were returning to the Dark Ages was mind-numbingly erroneous, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

 

(George Dubya, is that you?)

COMMENT OF THE DAY: Those Air Canada employees are the 20 per cent!

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From: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/03/12/air-canada.html

The federal government is currently working on legislation to prevent work stoppages at Air Canada, whose pilots were being locked out as its machinists were set to go on strike.  Naturally, this is all the union’s fault, according to this CBC commentator:

 

Wait, did the stockbrokers union go on strike or something?  I’m pretty sure that the baggage handlers at Air Canada don’t make more than 80 per cent of Canadians.  Then again, this guy also thinks that sweatshop workers earn an “honest wage.”  I suppose that Air Canada employees do earn more than 80 per cent of sweatshop workers…

COMMENT OF THE DAY: Air Canada has got to stop taking my tax dollars, damnit!

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From: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120308/Raitt-involvement-Air-Canada-dispute-120308/

We’re about to see chaos in the skies (or at least at the airports) next week as Air Canada is set to lock out its pilots on Monday, the same day that its mechanics, baggage handlers and cargo agents will be going on strike.  If you plan on flying Air Canada anytime soon, good luck.  I just hope they get this all resolved by the end of April, as I require their services to get to Pittsburgh on the 22nd of next month.

Obviously, people are upset.  You could say they’re mad as hell, and they’re not gonna take it anymore.  Thus, amidst a barrage of laughable typos and some truly awful spelling, there seems to be a fairly widespread belief on the CTV website that Air Canada needs to cede the airways to the private sector, which I find kinda funny.

 

Newsflash: Air Canada is a private corporation.  Its stock currently trades at a whopping 93 cents a share on the TSX.  Not everything with the word Canada in it is funded by our tax dollars, y’know. Mind you, until WestJet starts servicing non-resort U.S. destinations and Porter equips itself with larger planes to handle longer flights, I’ll keep giving my money to Air Canada—it just won’t be automatically deducted from my paycheque.  (Besides, thinking of all those wasted Aeroplan Miles that would be unredeemable on any other airline makes me shudder…)

COMMENT OF THE DAY: Communist history fail!

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From: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/13/ndp-calls-on-ethics-boss-to-investigate-raitt

The plot thickens in the Air Canada dispute, with the NDP revealing that Labour Minister Lisa Raitt, she of the back-to-work legislation, had her tickets upgraded to business class by Duncan Dee himself.  You remember Duncan, he had that man with a gun show up outside his heavily fortified castle the other night.  Suffice to say that the anti-unionist commentors on the Toronto Sun would have a field day with this.  But wait, is that an anti-Harper comment I see!?

 

(I’d point out to richcom that calling the Harper government Bolsheviks is kinda like saying Jack Layton was a Nazi, but it looks like someone already beat me to the punch.)

Not since that time I had beans and broccoli for dinner…

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That’s my response to this Air Canada flight attendant, in a picture taken from this here Financial Post article:

UPDATE 4:07 PM: It looks like Air Canada has reached a deal with its flight attendants, according to this CTV News article.  I guess she’ll have more stinky dinners to look forward to!