"Without lifting a finger" Absolutely! Imagine coaching pilots through endless additional training meetings, the parade of disciplinary meetings, fielding every "CS is screwing me" call at all hours, all while trying to hold the company to account. Never mind the bottomless inbox and the DARTs. The ...

No one cares. Go back to your job flying in a war zone.

There are a few structural realities being overlooked here. WestJet pilots have historically enjoyed better QOL for a very simple reason. For most of its existence they could not match Air Canada pay rates. They didn't even have a pension! QOL was essential for recruitment and retention. Socialized ...

It's not a claim its a fact. The CLC at it's core is remedial not punitive. An arbitrator can order compliance, back pay, interest, or damages tied to an actual loss but they are not there to issue fines as punishment. That’s not an ALPA preference, that’s just how Canadian labour law functions. Eve...

AC pilots’ contract expires next year. Hopefully we see new Reps for the next round, not the same weak yes voters. I would not be surprised if, with the same Reps, they agree to gains that do not even beat leisure or discount carriers, especially out of YUL. They would be scared to fight a wet pool...

Encore does not have a stronger case than Jazz pilots. How can you honestly say that with a straight face? WestJet ownership of Encore is the starting point, not the obstacle. The employer relationship already exists. Jazz would be asking the CIRB to impose one after the fact, without ownership, by...

Why don't you put your hand up Truedude, you sure have a lot of strong opinions on how it should all work. I'm expecting the remainder of the ULP to be dismissed any day now. Hopefully the next Jazz Chair secures a strong mandate from the membership and can unify the group. This political infighting...

Reading some of the posts here, you’d think the rooms would be packed at local council meetings with members demanding change, pushing resolutions, engaging leadership. But that hasn’t been my experience at all. The meetings I’ve attended at YYZ have been sparsely attended. In fact, all the other ba...

Ah yes, the usual peanut gallery taking shots at their peers and twisting the facts. Let’s be honest, the FAs didn’t get 42%, or anything close to their topline demands. They were routed straight to arbitration. Exactly what everyone familiar with the process expected. They’ll eventually get a small...

Its hilarious to see all the AC dissident posters pile in here to give their "expert" advice on late stage bargaining. Like they have a clue. Transat pilots will do whats best for them given the circumstances at hand. And those circumstances by the way, are entirely different from those faced by AC ...

For the last two years your group did nothing but obfuscate, obstruct, and failed to offer anything meaningful or relevant, eventually leading to the CIRB kicking them out. So same old same old. Why would anyone sit down to negotiate with someone who puts a loaded gun on the table? A Section 35 fil...

When in the history of these organizations, has collaboration ever resulted in a net benefit for Jazz pilots? We are dealing with a pilot group that gave away our biggest bargaining advantage, the exclusivity of tier 2 flying, for absolutely nothing in return, creating the last decade of essentiall...

Just because the CIRB mentions "common employer" multiple times in no way speaks to the validity of that claim. All they said was these arguments don't belong in a ULP, if you want it to be considered there's another section of the code that deals with it. It is procedural housekeeping, not a hint i...

Pilots (and other skilled workers) in the UAE get paid better because they’ve got something our pilots here seem to have lost. It’s called self-respect. Let’s be clear, it’s not “self-respect” that drives higher pay in the UAE - it’s compensation for instability. Pilots there are paid more because ...

To each their own. But I take exception to the usual detractors who never miss an opportunity to lament Canadian pay rates and by extension, Canadian society itself. The reason the Middle East pays so handsomely for skilled labour is simple, few would choose to live in an oligarchic petrostate other...

We played the cards we had, and there was virtually zero downside to trying. I think you have everything to lose with Section 35. You certainly lose whatever you stand to gain in the deal presently at hand. The leverage with 35 is in the threat. But in reality it's all a bunch of hot air. By all me...

Weather balloons are used to measure conditions at 30-40km above earth, not FL300.

The ULP was filed OVER 2 YEARS ago. The JAZ MEC executive and negotiating committee have been extremely patient with ACA and the CIRB recognizes this. The ACA executive has been dragging their heals on this, pissing away time the board’s mediation dates(showing up unprepared etc)and frustrating the...

Correct, nothing will convince these trolls otherwise. When it comes to contract negotiations "deserve's got nothing to do with it". Previous injustices, real or perceived, have no bearing at the bargaining table. It all comes down to leverage in the moment. We extracted as much as we could and that...

So not only was there no fight, the union didn’t even pattern bargain for entry-level pay that matches an ultra low cost carrier. This is another dead horse that continues to be beaten. If you want the big bucks that Flair pays in their first year, go work there!! They have to pay that much because...

A shocking amount of willful ignorance and misinformation from the usual crowd plus a few "new" accounts. ALPA Dues is not 2%. It's 1.85% . It's important to be specific when it pertains to percentages. You wouldn't round up a 1.85% mortgage rate to 2% would you? Of course not. But you won't here th...

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Hope everyone involved is ok.

Short answer no, it would not be a red flag. You have a Boeing type rating which means you can pass a course. And then if you slug it out at a regional to get those hours, it shows drive. The minimums for AC have been teetering around 2,000 hours. There are 1,400 hour pilots at the regionals who wil...

Next target should be the local council reps. It is about accountability. And agenda item 1 should be investigating the closure of the YWG council. Article III - Section 10 of the ALPA Constitution allows for dissolution of a local council by the Master Executive Council. The YWG pilots can be anne...